Michael Wegener

What's a "stand-alone sequel" though?

Y'all
Look at this

LOOK AT THIS!!!!!!

I don't get it. Seems to me you're doing fine. Most indie writers out there would kill to be where you are right now.
Yes, it's true. Social media eats souls. So fuck it. Just post when you feel like it. It's not worth the pain.

Year’s end. A time for family, reflection, and one last stab at self-promotion.

Also, an opportunity to thank @bristolnoir.bsky.social, All Due Respect, and Punk Noir Magazine (twice!) for sharing my stories.

In case you missed them:

Reminder that terrific @remainsmagazine.bsky.social is always open to submissions.

No! Damn. Just read Willnot. A true poet. I'll miss him.

Thrilled to have a new story up over at Literary Garage. Check out "Rip" and follow young Kyle, still reeling from the loss of his father and sister, back home, where his mother is seeing a new guy, who turns out to be a PI with a dark secret...

literarygarage.com/rip

#crimefiction #noir #neonoir

My 2nd short story of 2026, DESTROYER, is in HORROR SLEAZE TRASH today!

A 2800 word revenge story, that'll be in my untitled short story collection. Click on the link, if you'd like to read.

horrorsleazetrash.com/2026/01/27/f...

Get those stories ready and send them in starting 2/01.
I’ll be nursing a drink and listening for the sound of something going wrong….bad ideas….worse intentions…
Waiting for trouble to start.

Thanks for having me!

Rip | Literary Garage

Thanks Gabino.
Hot off the press - a new story up over at Literary Garage. Check out "Rip" and follow young Kyle, still reeling from the loss of his father and sister, back home, where his mother is seeing a new guy who turns out to be a PI with a dark secret...

literarygarage.com/rip

#fridayreads

It’s #FridayReads time! Let’s boost all signals. Repost this and let us know what to repost for you. Sharing this monster full of violence, friendship, magic, monsters, ghosts, and revenge again because it’s on sale and…storms!

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Thanks, Michael, appreciate it! I have a feeling I might return to Cahill some day...

Thrilled to have a new story up over at Literary Garage. Check out "Rip" and follow young Kyle, still reeling from the loss of his father and sister, back home, where his mother is seeing a new guy, who turns out to be a PI with a dark secret...

literarygarage.com/rip

#crimefiction #noir #neonoir

Nominations for the 2026 Edgar Awards Revealed | Kirkus Reviews The annual prizes recognize achievement in mystery fiction and nonfiction.

Did we mention this is the 80th Edgar Awards? That's right, the first Edgars were awarded in 1946.

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I apologize for sharing this one again, but it’s incredibly timely. A lot of anger went into this one. A lot of hope, too. I’d love for folks to read it, feel it, let it slither over their hearts…

www.amazon.com/Coyote-Songs...

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More of this. If you’re still on Twitter it’s worth a long and hard think about why, and what you’re supporting.

Column: When this is over, we will need another Nuremberg "Regardless, we need to establish a few fundamental values: no grace for fascism, no tolerance for state terror and no illusions that compromise will beget accountability."

The Daily Tarheel 🔥

www.dailytarheel.com/article/5671...

From "Mile High Death Club" in this month's Schlock! Webzine.

A rock band possibly brings on the end as they cause their fans all over the world to mass-sacrifice and open a gateway to another realm...

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#horror #horrorstories #pulpfiction #shortstories

A bit of Mysterious Press history here

Thanks!

Totally agree. It's probably the humor that speaks to me the most. I moved on to Rest Stop after that, which I also dug, now I'll be checking out Nestlings next...

It's not like the "real" ones aren't criminal enough...

ICE impersonator incidents rise during Trump’s second term | CNN A CNN review has found two dozen incidents of people posing as ICE officers in 2025 – more incidents than during the prior four presidential terms combined.

I wrote this story "Nefarious" some time in early summer this year, published in November on The Yard:
theyardcrimeblog.com/2025/11/09/nefarious-crime-fiction/

Horrifying how quickly shit like this became reality...
edition.cnn.com/2025/10/02/us/ice-impersonator-incidents-rise-invs-vis

#fuckice

Thank You For Being A Mark | Literary Garage

Three idiots. Four old ladies. One very bad idea in South Florida.
Crime doesn’t always pay—Florida crime fiction from @bobarmstrongwriter.bsky.social at its meanest (and funniest).

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Time Travel Is Easy Amazon.com: Time Travel Is Easy: 9798274963558: Hollon, Rick: Books

My debut poetry collection, Time Travel Is Easy, is all about Deep Time, queer embodiment, childhood trauma, and proletarian anger: www.amazon.com/dp/B0G344X8L7

All's Well That Ends Well Read it now

Thank you! x

Women in horror month is coming up in no time! And uh, I am a lady who writes horror. I'd be thrilled if you checked out my first collection:
mybook.to/AllsWell

Pyres cover in paperback and ebook with a pull quote by author TC Parker

Thanks, Gabino!

My latest book, Pyres, is an inferno of visceral rage against the anti-immigrant agenda of the greedy shitheads in power.

Hope people will dig it.
books2read.com/pyresnovel

Thanks Gabino - much appreciated

Here's a promo video I made for Saltblood recently... Fuck LLM "content"... we're going lo-fi!

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Why, it’s the best darn $5.99 existential horror novel featuring a f’d up deer on the cover currently available. Kurt Phillips’ The Hand of the Archer.

The Hand of the Archer Ebook is on sale for $5.99!
There’s sex, drugs, & endurance sports.
(existential dread is free of charge)
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