M. Kelly Peach

I love baking too. Is that Cuban Bread?

Hundreds of thousands of people, dead because of a decision made by the world's richest man

No it’s important to listen to this. Because then you understand that many of them will do ANYTHING to keep power. Remember Musk got involved in the 2024 election after saying to Tucker “if she wins” I am definitely going to prison.

So we need to move knowing that nothing is off the table for them.

How to Write 100,000 Words Per Day, Every Day Most people don’t believe me when I tell them I write 100,000 words every day of my life. If I’m being totally honest, 100,000 is probably just a b...

"You don’t need to be 'paid' to become a professional writer. I suggest you adopt a Cartesian view of writing and recognize that through the act of writing, you become a writer. Your parents will not let you starve."

Well, the opening of this opinion made me cry

We’re going to win y’all

Good one.

ICE Opens New Supermax Detention Center For Most Hardened Toddlers CORNUDAS, TX—In response to growing issues with its population of juvenile detainees, the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency reportedly announced on Tuesday the opening of a new supermax ...

ICE Opens New Supermax Detention Center For Most Hardened Toddlers

Create something. Put it in your house or put it in the world. Put it in the garage, if you choose. The act of creation itself has meaning, apart from appreciation or celebration

Lest We Forget the Horrors: An Unending Catalog of Trump’s Cruelties, Collusions, Corruptions, and Crimes Lest We Forget the Horrors: An Unending Catalog of Trump’s Cruelties, Collusions, Corruptions, and Crimes

Trump is up to 364 cruelties, collusions, corruptions, and crimes.
www.mcsweeneys.net/columns/lest...

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Michael Peach Author Signing
Saturday Aug 16th, 2025
11:00 AM to 1 PM CST at the Lion's Mouth Bookstore

Stop in to meet regional author Michael Peach & get signed copy of his books: The Adventures of Argyle Sock, Please, Do Not Tap on the Glass, and The Death of Tintagiles Death.

YouTube video by BAMWrites & 42² Presents Interview with M. Kelly Peach | 42 Stories Anthology Presents

Below are links to an interview I did with BAM, the editor of 42 Stories (squared). A massive, fascinating anthology that has my piece The Sad, Grievous Death of Edgar Allen Poe.
Vlog: youtu.be/PS07aV4FSAs
Blog: bamwrites.blogspot.com/2024/12/a-li...
Short: drive.google.com/file/d/12_jJ...

When Quixote fought the windmill, who won?
from Dark Factory by Kathe Koja

Lest We Forget the Horrors: An Unending Catalog of Trump’s Cruelties, Collusions, Corruptions, and Crimes: June 2025: Atrocities 273-313 Early in President Trump’s first term, McSweeney’s editors began to catalog the head-spinning number of misdeeds coming from his administration. We...

Credit to @mcsweeneys.net for this, sad, regrettable and unfortunate (and maybe triggering) as it is.
www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/jun...

I remember an academic friend, who liked nothing, telling me I shouldn't be so ready to praise, but should look for the flaws in any work. I decided this was literary sadism in the service of highmindedness.
William Kennedy in Riding the Yellow Trolley Car

I will be at the Negaunee Public Library author signing event on Tues 7/8/25 from 4-6 p.m. EST. Hope to see you there!

It's good to have the chronology when discussing with people who simply do not pay attention and shrug it all off.

three poems — Blood+Honey by M. Kelley Peach “The chorus of Mr. Ford’s / Children sing a song of sorrow. / A dirge voiced in screeching rubber tones.”

Three of my poems have made an appearance at Blood+Honey Literary Magazine. Here is the link: www.bloodhoneylit.com/poetry/to-mr...

Math Problems for English Majors If Elizabeth Bennet’s house is ten miles away from Mr. Darcy’s house, how far will her mother go to arrange a suitable marriage? - - - An English m...

"Ellen has five times the dowry as her sister Charlotte, but Charlotte is twice as attractive as Ellen, and three times as funny. How many times will each sister reject her initial suitor until each finally marries her initial suitor? What if this is a Jane Austen novel?"

M. Kelly Peach is Alien Buddha’s Featured Artist for June 2025 ABP- Thank you for taking this interview, Michael. Earlier this year, ABP was lucky to have published your chapbook ‘Please, Do Not Tap on the Glass’. What was your writing process like on that? MK…

I am the Alien Buddha Press Featured Artist for June 2025 for my poetry chapbook Please, Do Not Tap on the Glass. Here is the link for my interview with Red, editor for ABP: alienbuddhapress.wordpress.com/2025/05/30/m...

Lest We Forget the Horrors: An Unending Catalog of Trump’s Cruelties, Collusions, Corruptions, and Crimes Early in President Trump’s first term, McSweeney’s editors began to catalog the head-spinning number of misdeeds coming from his administration. We...

Here's the latest update for @mcsweeneys.net. We are now at 215 atrocities. If you've been following along, the new posts begin with April 14th. www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/les...

Flag and Country, Not Kings · No Kings **In America, we don’t put up with would-be kings.** NO KINGS is a national day of action and mass mobilization in response to increasing authoritarian excesses and corruption from Trump and his allie...

I'm attending No Kings's event, “Flag and Country, Not Kings” - sign up now to join me! www.mobilize.us/nokings/even...

The last thing I did I did before I slept was remove my bandage, and let my hand dangle, a sweetly sordid treat in a smiling mouth.
by Kathe Koja in The Cipher

#ProudBlue #MomSky

This is powerful & it makes me sick to my stomach. How do people not see the parallels?

We CANNOT be silent. We MUST fight & resist.

If you wondered why people were silent in 1903s Germany, look at many in the US right now.

Share the truths. Call out lies.

IT’S UP TO US!

DOGE is not efficient at all.

Edgar Rice Burroughs
Jack Vance
Arthur C. Clarke
Terry Pratchett
Edgar Allen Poe

What is more disturbing to our peace of mind than the unconditional loyalty of members of totalitarian movements, and the popular support of totalitarian regimes, is the unquestionable attraction these movements exert on the elite and not only the mob...
Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism

The Washington Post refused to run this ad. Sure would be a shame if it went viral.

Please, Do Not Tap on the Glass Please, Do Not Tap on the Glass [Peach, M. Kelly, Buddha, Alien] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. Please, Do Not Tap on the Glass

My poetry chapbook, Please, Do Not Tap on the Glass, has launched. Published by Alien Buddha Press, it is available in paperback for $11.25 at Amazon. Here is the link: www.amazon.com/Please-Do-No...