Michael Beyer

Spastic Enjoyment of Conspiracy-Theorist Treasure So, I understand that the JFK documents are now released to the public.  Old George HW Bush stipulated the date in 1992, 25 years ago.  So I should be thrilled, right? Here is Politico’s arti…

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Coming Home Again Well, my wife dropped me off at the family farm in Iowa, the Beyer farm, the Aldrich farm (my grandparents), for a hundred years before that. Then she went back to the house in Carrollton because s…

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Confessions on the Prairie Some songs are so beautiful and so true, that I cannot listen without tears in my eyes and burning fire in my heart. “I did my best, it wasn’t much I couldn’t feel, so I tried to …

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The Silent Sonata Being a writer is a life of music that happens only in your head.  You hear voices constantly.  They pulse rhythmically with insights and ideas that have to be written down and remembered.  Otherwi…

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Tom Sawyer Abroad (Book Review) Believe it or not, I read this entire 100+-year-old book in my car while waiting for my daughter and my son in school parking lots.  What a perfectly ironic way to read a soaring imaginary adventur…

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How Learning Takes Place So many people in this society seem to think they know better how to do what a teacher is supposed to do than those people they actually pay tiny amounts of money to for doing decades worth of the …

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The Same Old New Day Today is… a new day. an opportunity. a day to celebrate. But Last Night was… a horror show. proof our Prexydent is a monster. reason to be afraid of the future. So, what do we do? I wis…

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Over the Rainbow Here is a notion that I find disturbing, compelling, and totally fascinating.  The world portrayed to us through history, current media, and what is assumed to be common knowledge of the facts…

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How the Story Ends How the Story Ends (a poem of sour grapes) This is how the story ends… When fox plus grapes make themes. It tells you all the grapes are sour… So give up on your dreams.   But that…

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How To Avoid Dropping Dead Like a Dunderhead This post originally appeared here on April 21st, 2015, the anniversary of Mark Twain’s expiration date.   If it is inevitable that I will surely drop dead some day, and if it is likely that …

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Telling Teacher Stories Here’s a secret that is only a secret if you are one of the well-over-six-billion people that don’t know I exist; I loved being a public school teacher.  I taught for 31 years.  24 year…

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Melvin is very different to his friends & family, he is a hairy frog. An illustrated book for young readers which celebrates being different & how we all have a purpose and belong encouraging inclusion and friendship. www.amazon.com/Melvin-Hairy... / @booksstlouis.bsky.social @iquitcigs.bsky.social

The Baby Werewolf Amazon.com: The Baby Werewolf eBook : Beyer, Michael: Kindle Store

My werewolf story may or may not have a real werewolf in it, but it definitely has humor, nudists, Pirates, and actual wolves in it.

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Character References, Part 3 When choosing whose picture to publish of all the many made-up people that live in my head and my fiction, I often wonder, do I have an accurate sense of who is important and who is merely minor?&n…

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Recipes for Gingerbread Children Recipes for Gingerbread Children - Kindle edition by Beyer, Michael. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading Recipes for Gingerbread Children.

This tale of fairies, nudists, and remembered Nazis is one of my best works, and it is once again my most popular book on Amazon
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People Art All art on this planet (with the possible exceptions of paintings by monkeys and elephants, and the songs of whales and dolphins) is about people. What is art, if it is not a reflection of who and …

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Perilous Poo Problems Tuesday, in the early morning, I was back in an emergency room bed for what I feared might be heart pain. It was bad enough to force me to spend more money on the ER, even though I had doubts about…

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Slade House (a book by David Mitchell) As a writer of novels, like all passable to good writers of novels, I read novels. Not just any novels. Novels that are the kind of novels I aspire to write myself. David Mitchell is one of those n…

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The Necromancer's Apprentice The Necromancer's Apprentice - Kindle edition by Beyer, Michael. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading The Necromancer's Apprentice.

This fairytale is a satire and illustrated story of naturally naked fairies, the return of an evil grade-school chum, and the misuse of magic. If you don't hate it, you will love it.
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A Character Reference Millis He was once an ordinary pet rabbit, transformed through an accident involving a time-traveler’s alien-created mechanical carrot. He is a character in; The Bicycle-Wheel Genius        M…

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David Mitchell is Genius! Yes, David Mitchell is a very smart man… a very smart English man.  (That isn’t to say that his genius is any less genius than an American Genius.  Just that he is a genius who also hap…

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The Sorcerer’s Tower In the mysterious continent of Xendrick, the adventuring party came across a very old abandoned tower.  The only way into the tower was a long sloping tunnel that turned out to be trapped and fille…

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Really Odd Things are in the “Wrong File” On my computer I keep a lot of picture files for inspiration both as an artist and a writer.  One of those files is labeled simply the “Wrong File”.  Everything in that pictur…

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Translating Texican I came to Texas from Iowa.  I was well-versed in how to speak Iowegian.  (I was, don’t-ya-know, and spoke it fluently, you-betcha.) Then I arrived, fresh-faced and ready to change t…

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Planting Some Onions I told you recently that I believe that opinions are like onions.  Consuming them is good for you.  It cleans out the system.  It turns little imperfections and poisons into gas and leads you to ex…

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Making Pictures I love to make the pictures I make, To draw, paint, and edit, I love to create. Faces and places and photos I take… And viewers give praises or even berate. AI helps me now that my hands ache…

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Skyscapes of the Cloudy Mind I admit it.  Even though I collect pictures of sunrises to glory in the fact that I still have another day of life in this world, I rarely snap a picture of the cloudless sunrise.  It is very possi…

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