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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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Live from Slackerville

Live from Slackerville

2014-11-10
quemaqua
Education, Japanese, Life, Publishing, Rants, Writing

So it’s been a good while since I’ve made an update, and I apologize for that. In the last few months, school has gone from…

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Two From the Vault

Two From the Vault

2014-05-28
quemaqua
Publishing

Amid the flurry of life-related craziness, school worries, and language study, I have somehow still managed to find time for two things: videogames and publishing…

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金繕い or 金継ぎ: a Japanese form of Pottery Repair

金繕い or 金継ぎ: a Japanese form of Pottery Repair

2014-05-04
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Art, Japanese

As some of you may know, I’ve recently returned to studying Japanese. This is something I’d invested heavily in several years ago, but during the…

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Solarcidal Tendencies

Solarcidal Tendencies

2014-04-19
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Publishing, Writing

So there’s this monstrosity happening, which is looking like a fantastically wicked awesome anthology, and I’ll be closing out the table of contents with “Love,…

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Update-o-tron 5000

Update-o-tron 5000

2014-04-09
quemaqua
Life, Publishing, Writing

Okay, maybe I lied. Maybe this is a lesser model than the 5000. But it’s an update nonetheless, so let’s not split hairs. It’s been…

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The Darker the Dungeon

The Darker the Dungeon

2014-03-06
quemaqua
Art, Games, Rants

Ah, “darkness”. Few words conjure up so much immediate meaning and are still so subject to arguments about semantic terminology. What is dark to one,…

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No Road Without a Scene

No Road Without a Scene

2014-03-02
quemaqua
Life, Poetry, Reading

Hello, Stress. I haven’t missed you, because you never go away long enough to be missed. Thankfully, my heart is still feeling well, despite complications…

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At the End of that Blind Alley

At the End of that Blind Alley

2014-02-10
quemaqua
Art, Life

Sometimes I need a reminder as regards not just the beauty of the world, but the beauty of its tapestry, the spun consequence of those…

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Frankenheart: Which Makes it Sound Like I Ate too Many Hotdogs

Frankenheart: Which Makes it Sound Like I Ate too Many Hotdogs

2014-02-06
quemaqua
Life

I don’t relish having to come here and make the following post, in part because I don’t like acknowledging—much less discussing—my physical issues. I don’t…

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Crowdfunding: Because Your Manuscript Sucks

Crowdfunding: Because Your Manuscript Sucks

2014-01-31
quemaqua
Publishing, Reading, Writing

Before starting this, I’d just like to say that I’m not against crowdfunding, self-publishing, or any of the interesting alternative models we’ve come up with…

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LIVE FEEDING (Bluesky)

👻Michael J. Riser𖤐❌👑
27.6.2025 @ 17:11

Doing some writing after a month or two of emotional burnout. I think some ideas are beginning to kindle around restructuring the beginning of the book. Thanks to my wife for eviscerating my first draft with chef's-kiss surgical precision.

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👻Michael J. Riser𖤐❌👑
26.6.2025 @ 21:18

Just lost a $10 lotto ticket. I swear to god, if someone wins millions of dollars because they picked it up off the ground, I will find them and I will unalive them with my hands and teeth

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👻Michael J. Riser𖤐❌👑
25.6.2025 @ 04:15

Man, I could listen to (or read, I guess) Michael Cisco talk about literature for hours on end. Whatever you're doing, take a break and read this.

Paul Tremblay
25.6.2025 @ 01:05

Michael Cisco's five favorite weird books.

fivebooks.com/best-books/w...

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👻Michael J. Riser𖤐❌👑
25.6.2025 @ 01:29

This is awesome. Like 8,000 more heads/limbs to hack off this fucking thing, but still, awesome.

Chase Cain
24.6.2025 @ 12:28

‘NOT FOR SALE’
It turns out that not many Americans wanted to see our country’s public land sold — with polls showing 75-80% opposed — even 65% of Republicans

Late Monday, that proposal got the axe 🪓
news.bloomberglaw.com/environment-...

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👻Michael J. Riser𖤐❌👑
25.6.2025 @ 01:27

I dooo love me a good cursed family.

Yolanda Sfetsos
25.6.2025 @ 01:12

#Booksky, if you're in the mood for a bleak, cursed family horror book set in a small town with a good dose of folk horror & a mysterious entity, you might enjoy this:

Suffer.

Surrender.

The choice is yours.

Kindle & KU: mybook.to/XIvD2

GR: shorturl.at/2i9LO

Find out more: shorturl.at/bMDQx

😈

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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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