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Michael Mullen

@mpmullen.bsky.social

Short story writer (literary fiction/various genres), sometimes poet, university professor, salad dressing.

233 Followers  |  323 Following  |  80 Posts  |  Joined: 26.01.2025  |  1.9344

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You go, girl.

#JoyceCarolOates #Musk

10.11.2025 23:40 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Funny, but I don't remember coffee going from $6/bag to $9/bag under Biden.

03.11.2025 12:42 — 👍 55    🔁 4    💬 1    📌 0
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My heart is full! Cary NC has turned out spectacularly for No Kings!!

18.10.2025 16:31 — 👍 7342    🔁 1672    💬 126    📌 109
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The inflatables r showing up everywhere for No Kings music festivals! 🥰 #nokings

18.10.2025 16:59 — 👍 3273    🔁 736    💬 68    📌 35
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Chuck Berry’s 1973 El Dorado. Because hell, why not?

15.10.2025 21:28 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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IYKYK

04.10.2025 02:05 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
Twilight Zone - "Nothing in the Dark" ending (SPOILER ALERT)
YouTube video by Next Best Thing Twilight Zone - "Nothing in the Dark" ending (SPOILER ALERT)

RIP Robert Redford.

17.09.2025 00:38 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Which one should I read next?

23.08.2025 16:44 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 1

Guilty.

16.08.2025 19:29 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I’ve read many of John Irving‘s books but have yet to read The World According to Garp, which I am reading now. It’s pretty dang great.

14.08.2025 15:32 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Google “YA books by black authors.” You’ll get a ton of responses.

09.08.2025 13:35 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Love that book.

28.07.2025 20:54 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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From Philip Levine.

03.07.2025 01:39 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Great book. On par, if not better than, Migrations. Wasn't as much of a fan with Once There Were Wolves.

30.06.2025 19:20 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

No. If poems had to rhyme, we would never have a Mary
Oliver, Philip Levine, Seamus Heany, James Tate, Sarah Freligh, Keetjie Kuipers, etc.

30.06.2025 16:01 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0

Agreed. But when are Democrats going to actually do something instead of just call out everything?

12.06.2025 18:14 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Exactly.

12.06.2025 02:07 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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RIP Brian Wilson. He sometimes struggled to find joy in his own life, but never ceased to give it to millions of others. Thank you.

12.06.2025 02:03 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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When even the LAPD thinks military force is a bad idea...

09.06.2025 13:23 — 👍 214    🔁 80    💬 4    📌 4
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Trump shares baseless conspiracy that Joe Biden died and was replaced by a clone Trump shared a Truth Social post written by a supporter that claims Biden was killed in 2020 and replaced, unbeknownst to Democrats.

I try not to post political stuff here, but this is truly amazing. I can't believe that the President of the United States would share something this idiotic.

There are no words.

#trump #biden #ohmygod

01.06.2025 18:59 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Tiny Terrors (Spring 2025) | Graveside Press Step into the Graveside … Horrors abound, and you never know what you’re gonna find. Winged beasts at a snowy Chicago train stop, a museum of death that’s a little too realistic, the new apartment po...

Happy to announce that my first ghost story has just been published by the awesome folks @gravesidepress.bsky.social. Check out the anthology. There are some great stories in here.

#booksky #writersofbooksky #writing #writingcommunity #fiction #horror #ghosts

31.05.2025 14:10 — 👍 8    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Agreed! I loved it as well.

31.05.2025 14:03 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Jordan Peele’s collection of black-authored horror stories called Out There Screaming.

Dawn (or anything else) by Octavia Butler.

The Reformatory by Tananarive Due.

31.05.2025 12:19 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0

Beyond evil. Do we know if any of those elderly residents who were denied hospital care wound up dying? If so, a tsunami of lawsuits should be slapped on United Healthcare.

30.05.2025 20:27 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Michael Mullen, writer Author page

Author splash page now up. I have no idea what I'm doing, but I've been asked to do it anyway. So there.

#fiction #shortstories #bookskywriters

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My four favorite anthologies of ghost/horror stories.

#books #booksky

23.05.2025 16:52 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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