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2023.10.31 -
"Lucid Interval” published in Qualia Nous vol. 2 from Written Backwards. Available in hardcover, softcover, and ebook formats.

2023.10.31 -
"What's Left of the Sun” published in Put Out the Lights and Cry from Outcast Press. Available in softcover and ebook formats.

2022.01.01 -
“Observance” published in Coffin Bell‘s vol. 5 issue 1 to finish out 2021 with a bang. Available for free.

2021.10.01 -
“Adopt Now” published in Coffin Bell‘s vol. 4 issue 4, "Technophobia", alongside a boatload of other great work. Available for free.

2014.06.19 -
"Love, Posey" appears in Solarcidal Tendencies (paperback from CreateSpace/Amazon.com $10).

2014.05.27 -
"Cradlesong" appears in Despumation vol. 1 (paperback issue from CreateSpace/Amazon $6.99, $3.99 for Kindle).

2014.05.18 -
"Casa de Perros" appeared in Pantheon Magazine's anthology Gaia: Shadow & Breath (paperbacks from $10-$13 at CreateSpace/Amazon, ebooks for $2.99).

2013.12 -
"Dog Training" and "As Simple as Teacups" featured in the Fall 2013 issue of Sheepshead Review (print only - $5, shipping included, here).

2013.10.12 -
Come Death featured on deviantART.com.

2013.09.21 -
The Pursuit of Love and Labor published in Deimos eZine, vol. 2, issue 3.

2013.01.06 -
"Snow Angels" published in Downer Magazine (defunct).

2012.12.12 -
"Love, Posey" published at Solarcide.com. Eventually removed to be published in a future Solarcide anthology.

2012.04.26 -
because I still don't get e. e. cummings featured at myhero.com for National Poetry Month.

2011.11.15 -
blue sluice featured on deviantART.com.

2011.02.07 -
Featured in deviantART.com's The A,B,C's of Literature: Q by the-photographicpoet.

2011.01.10 -
a poem from a well bottom featured on deviantART.com.

2008.12 -
"poet show" was published in UNC Charlotte's Sanskrit, vol. 39, pg. 19.

2008 -
Poem "profanity" was published by Black Book Press.
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(Late) Christmas Greetings & Loot Lists

(Late) Christmas Greetings & Loot Lists

2010-12-26
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Life

It’s hard to believe that Christmas 2010 has already come and gone. It seems like no more than a few yesterdays ago that the year…

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Embers, Fissures, and the Blue-Blossoming Snake

Embers, Fissures, and the Blue-Blossoming Snake

2010-12-22
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Life

The embers of this Wednesday morning smolder. Though the sun is shining, that great fire of the sky has failed to ignite upon the bed…

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Gutless Beginnings and the Giving of Gifts

Gutless Beginnings and the Giving of Gifts

2010-12-17
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Well. Here I am, sitting at my desk at 1 in the afternoon on a bright, cold December Thursday, wondering just what the hell I…

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TFMA Goes Live

TFMA Goes Live

2010-12-15
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Life

It’s been a long road, but we’re finally here. The last few months have been difficult ones, as I’ve cast off the shackles of conventional…

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NEWSLETTER:




LIVE FEEDING (Bluesky)

👻Michael J. Riser𖤐❌👑
16.7.2025 @ 15:30

Everything is terrible, so I'm gonna stick my arms deep into computer guts for the rest of the morning and pretend it's 1998.

a girl in a white dress is standing in a room with a teddy bear sitting on the window sill
Alt: Lain from anime Serial Experiments Lain in a gif. She wears a nightshirt and walks from a mass of tangled cables next to a desk in a dark room lit by twilight and old CRT computer monitors, with numerous wires and haphazardly stacked computing equipment strewn around the space.

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👻Michael J. Riser𖤐❌👑
16.7.2025 @ 15:30

Everything is terrible, so I'm gonna stick my arms deep into computer guts for the rest of the morning and pretend it's 1998.

a girl in a white dress is standing in a room with a teddy bear sitting on the window sill
Alt: Lain from anime Serial Experiments Lain in a gif. She wears a nightshirt and walks from a mass of tangled cables next to a desk in a dark room lit by twilight and old CRT computer monitors, with numerous wires and haphazardly stacked computing equipment strewn around the space.

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👻Michael J. Riser𖤐❌👑
16.7.2025 @ 15:10

I did bake a cake, plus made frosting from scratch. It turned out fairly average but was therapeutic. Recommended.

👻Michael J. Riser𖤐❌👑
16.7.2025 @ 00:50

Everything is too gross, I'm going to go put on a show and bake a cake or something.

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👻Michael J. Riser𖤐❌👑
16.7.2025 @ 04:19

*looks at library of literally multiple thousands of games*

man there's just nothing to play

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👻Michael J. Riser𖤐❌👑
16.7.2025 @ 04:11

Posted this once, but it deserves another. Really excellent and insightful interview that's worth a read.

Michael Cisco
15.7.2025 @ 17:45

here's the interview i did with sylvia bishop of fivebooks.com about weird fiction ...
fivebooks.com/best-books/w...

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RETALIATION
  1. X23Ceaph on Read MJR2024-06-24

    Hey people!!!!! Good mood and good luck to everyone!!!!!

  2. Ashlee M on Embers, Fissures, and the Blue-Blossoming Snake2023-09-09

    This was great to reead

  3. Gia Waters on At the End of that Blind Alley2023-01-18

    Grateful for shariing this

  4. Michael J. Riser on Moby-Dick Is A Cosmic Horror Novel & I’m Unemployed2022-11-08

    Thanks, Chris! Gonna buckle down and get er done this year if it kills me.

  5. Christopher J. Teuton (Buy A THIEF'S QUEST now!) (@ChrisTeuton) on Moby-Dick Is A Cosmic Horror Novel & I’m Unemployed2022-11-02

    Looking forward to reading the book when it's ready!

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