Michael G. Williams 🏳️‍🌈

A few of the Gloom-Wilders are currently available at my Big Cartel shop. Any sales are very much appreciated.

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Lots of feelings about the importance of taking up space as a minority today. the tl;dr is that those of us who are capable need to show up at events to interact with folks in person: #transwriter #writesky #supportyourlocalcon
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I know it's not Wednesday, but I need to tag #HorrorWritersChat to brag that I got to hang out at @retconnc.bsky.social with @elijah.mea.rs and @samanthabwriter.bsky.social and we had an EXCELLENT time! Yay for HWC people and great horror talk in meatspace!

Welcome to Thursday Tea, with two special announcements! Find out where NerdVentures is going in 2027 and discover our new book/tea pairings! (and Verne falls off the birdfeeder.) Come see us and Moments in Tea at @retconnc.bsky.social this weekend!

#lgbtqbooks #queerbooks #tea #markets #convention

Cover of my poetry collection Time Travel Is Easy. Cover art by Helen Whistberry. The cover depicts the skeleton of an Archaeopteryx against a background of stylized black trees.

It’s World Book Day? Why not take a trip back in time! TIME TRAVEL IS EASY is my full-length poetry collection, examining Deep Time, queer embodiment, and the trauma of life in the late Anthropocene. It’s available through the links on my page: mimulus.weebly.com/books.html

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Any parasite. Parasites freak me tf out. The very concept of tapeworms freak me out.

But bigger than that…I mean I think cranes are beautiful, but if I saw glowing red eyes at night and dark ruffle of giant wings, I, too, would think I’d encountered cosmic horror.

For me, chimps.

They are terrifying.

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Phengaris, surrounded by a symmetrical pattern of butterflies and beetles

Thanks, Eryn. LOVED this topic.
Phengaris, takes its title from a very innocuous little blue butterfly, which parasitizes ants in a fiendishly inventive way.
A great deal of the horror is about arthropods, but also the ways humans can parasitism each other. #HorrorWritersChat

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Thanks for another great #HorrorWritersChat As always you can check out my horror on my website: dangerouswhenbored.com/collections/...

#horrorwriterschat The crow landed on the sill outside Donovan's window, glaring. It began tapping on the window insistently with its beak. Pausing now and then to glare some more. Just as it started to be irritating, it became clear. The bird was tapping Morse code. It said. GET OUT!

Chimps.

The secret movie at our theater recently was Primate. I’m hard to scare, but I covered my eyes through a lot of it.

Other than chimps, giant bugs give me full body shivers.

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It's so cliche but I love a good fucked up deer. It's not specifically for the deer factor- I love an ordinary, animal you might be able to see outside your home, but there is something Wrong. not quite right.

simple things, like: was that deers eyes too far forward?

Thank you, Eryn! I have lots to shout about. My collection of strange stories is out next month, my new album of strange music is out now, the edition of Frtitz Leiber's 'Conjure Wife' that I edited is out on the 20th.

Much more!

Links for the curious: linktr.ee/travisdjohns...

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Thank you, @erynmccee.bsky.social, amazing questions!!!

My latest is my queer Appalachian cosmic horror novel CHILDREN OF SOLITUDE about a mean queen, his dead mother's haunted house, and the OF star next door.

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I shot from the alley and out into the street, planning to cross it. But the boars must've known these streets better than I ever could. They waited for me, at least a dozen, eyes red, riding Harleys. I'd swear one laughed as they gunned their engines and steered toward me.

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Swarms of bees. I had a paralyzing fear of bees and of bee stings as a kid because so many relatives were allergic. I also grew up in the era of "killer bee" hype. I was--and am--terrified of being swarmed by bees and stung until I die. Yikes. Got the ick just typing that out.

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Insects with unexpected and hostile capabilities. For instance, the Saddleback caterpillar (growing up we called 'em "corn worms") looks neat but is basically ten million stingers on a hundred million legs. Something one might find fascinating, encountered as trauma instead? Yes.

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I'm Michael, I write queer cosmic & supernatural horror!

Plants are the things that creep in most, such as a talking fern or an extinct species supernaturally revived by malevolent forces. A plant with agency or a miracle offered for evil reasons are very compelling to me.

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Here’s your teaser:

…Bumping this for the Evening Crowd. 😄

What To Do When Your Popular Sheriff Loses His Insurance Counties get insurance policies to cover their costs in case someone sues the sheriff or his or her deputies. But what happens when the people who pay the bills can't tell the sheriff what to do?

Here's something I learned in researching this story: Since the death of George Floyd, 2/3rds of the private companies that provided liability insurance to law enforcement agencies pulled out, and those that remained have increased their rates and lowered caps.
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"I asked ChatGPT..."

OK well I asked the tree made of hands that grows in the walled garden.

If you're interesting in process, I wrote a blog post about how the matriarchy works in the Points novels, and how and why Lisa and I made some of our choices.
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Never heard of this law before right this second but holy fuck if it does not 100% check out

Thank you @tarvolon.bsky.social for including my story “Steel Holds the Heat’s Memory” as an honorable mention! It’s available to read here: kaleidotrope.net/summer-2025/...

I see lists of "best reviewed" books and have a small sad because it really means the best reviewed books from big publishers, famous authors, or people with serious Internet reach.

Thank you, @marywyrd.bsky.social, for an amazing set of questions!

House Republicans have just introduced a bill that would result in a NATIONWIDE book ban. Oh, the bill is also specifically transphobic. Contact your House Rep and ask them to publicly oppose this legislation. A few more thoughts in the thread about this action. bookriot.com/hr7661-book-...

I always flip "bury your gays." The queer (and other marginalized) characters always make it to the end. It's the bigots who get the axe along the way. I like to depict marginalized characters as having a survival advantage due to already having navigated a hostile world.

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Lots and lots of open discussion of religious trauma and the effects of growing up in a bigoted religious context. I depict these because I experience(d) them, but also for the pleasure of seeing bigoted characters undone by their own hate. It's a form of therapy.

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