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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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Writing, Quarantine, and the Other

Writing, Quarantine, and the Other

2020-08-28
quemaqua
Life, Writing

All I want to do is write. Okay, so I know that I haven’t gotten around to finishing writing about my experiences in Japan. Frankly,…

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日本の大冒険:第4章 - 日本の日出 - Japan Adventure: Part 4 - Sunrise in the Land of the Rising Sun

日本の大冒険:第4章 – 日本の日出 – Japan Adventure: Part 4 – Sunrise in the Land of the Rising Sun

2018-10-14
quemaqua
Education, Japanese, Writing

I am guilty of writing about individual bits and pieces of my experience to friends and family, and sharing a few longer stories here and there without actually sitting down and documenting much of anything, and so this post is an attempt to change that.

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日本の大冒険:第3章 - Japan Adventure: Part 3

日本の大冒険:第3章 – Japan Adventure: Part 3

2018-09-04
quemaqua
Life, Writing

皆さん、こんばんは!じゃあ、もっと10日で日本に行きます!本当に楽しみですがちょっと怖くなりますね。フォーマットを変更してみてますね。実はこのポストを日本語で書いているのに、日本語のイントロの後で英語版が来ます。そして日本語版下に現れますね。いいですか?うまくいけば、これはメインページを整理した状態に保ちます。(残る日本語のポストが下に現れます。) Hey guys! Well, it’s only ten more days before I leave for Japan! I’m incredibly excited, but also a little terrified. I’m trying a…

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PPP01: 夜の日光 - evening sunshine

PPP01: 夜の日光 – evening sunshine

2018-08-15
quemaqua
Art, Life, Poetry

she kicks, legs out on imagined grass grown over cotton water. we wash up on the duvet, pursed and pillowy as clouds hovering over the…

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日本の冒険:第1課 — Japan Adventure: Part 1

日本の冒険:第1課 — Japan Adventure: Part 1

2018-06-23
quemaqua
Education, Japanese, Life

皆さん、こんばんは!今日は私の冒険の日記の初めてのエントリーですね。知っていない人のために、説明するべきですね。来学期、信州大学に行き決めまして奨学金を6つ受けました。日本で勉強しに行くことを楽しみにします。 とにかく、先日私の便を買いました。うわー、すごくハラハラになりましたね。9月の12日にアメリカから離れます。カリフォルニアのオークランドに運転してLAXに飛んで成田空港まで飛びます。あそこから、電車で鎌倉に行ってホステルに泊まります。 一人きりに新しい国に行くことはちょっと怖いかも知れませんね。最近、日本語の会話会に行っていて日本人の友達と話すと恥ずかしくなっていました。悔しかったですよね。もっと練習がぜひ必要です。私の話す日本語はまだまだですね。 今朝は奨学金の申請を入力し終わりまして、午後は新しい会話チューターを見つけました。夜の残ってる時間でフラッシュカードに書いてる言葉で勉強するべきですね。この短いエントリーを許してください。 じゃあ、良い夜を、皆さん!またね。   Hey everyone! Today is the start of my Japan Adventure Diary. For those who don’t know, I guess I…

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A Wee Break in China, On to Japan

A Wee Break in China, On to Japan

2018-03-30
quemaqua
Education, Japanese, Life

あっ、あなたですね!お久しぶりです!えっと・・・去年はどうでしたか? Hi everyone! It’s been a good 18 months since my last post. Shame on me! I always have the best of intentions, like anyone…

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LIVE FEEDING (Bluesky)

👻Michael J. Riser𖤐
31.5.2025 @ 01:42

How you all doing? I haven't had the energy for socials at all after losing my health insurance (with a single week of advance notice) and scrambling to figure out how I'm going to continue to be not dead for the near future. What's new? Did I miss anything interesting?

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👻Michael J. Riser𖤐
26.5.2025 @ 15:31

Cool! Just lost my health insurance today, so now I go from spending nothing on my prescriptions to hundreds a month that I don't have! Yay!

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👻Michael J. Riser𖤐
25.5.2025 @ 01:30

My wife randomly decided to watch Better Call Saul and so far this is way more for me than Breaking Bad was. I tried three times to get through that show and never made it all the way through. Some great performances but something about it was so relentlessly depressing.

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👻Michael J. Riser𖤐
25.5.2025 @ 01:30

My wife randomly decided to watch Better Call Saul and so far this is way more for me than Breaking Bad was. I tried three times to get through that show and never made it all the way through. Some great performances but something about it was so relentlessly depressing.

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👻Michael J. Riser𖤐
23.5.2025 @ 05:39

goodnight moon,
goodnight worry
*melts into sloppy
joe-style meat slurry*

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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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