Michael Carter

Flash Monster 2025 This is Halloween. I We Were Never Afraid of the Spider by Timothy Fox II In Darkness by Eoin Nordman III Toxoplasma Odocoileus by Colin Alexander   IV  Son of Seanfhocail by Joseph Gilbride V…

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Love the costume! Have fun.

Went with a simple pumpkin design this year. Roasting seeds today and handing out some candy later with The Shining playing in the background. Haven't picked a costume yet but I have all day. Happy Halloween everyone!

Dropping in from an extended, mood-enhancing SM break to congratulate everyone. Still the best comp out there, IMHO. Looking forward to the next one!

😂 💚

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I wondered if that was me! Now I have to hold up my end of the agreement. 😀

Great piece and ending! I always wondered how we would know which side we're on, whether we've been replicated, etc.

Cool, congrats, you're killing it!

This sounds like a great idea, Maria. We'll miss you.

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Can't wait to see what will emerge in our #FlashMonster contest. Deadline is October 15th.

We like literary approaches but also dig genre & pulpy takes as well. Art house or grindhouse. Subvert the usual monster tropes or create something nobody’s ever seen.

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That card is so awesome you should just keep giving it every year. 😆

It went by fast this year. I canceled my trip this weekend down in the canyon due to a mechanical issue. If I can get it fixed, I might still fit in one last hurrah before the first deep freeze!

Great job in 101 Words! A prophecy . . .

Excellent, congrats! This is nonfiction, right? 😀

Plastic Is Forever - 101 Words 2022: Microplastics are first detected in human blood. 2025: Evidence mounts that plastic particles have infiltrated every part of the […]

Happy Saturday! Totally psyched that my micro "Plastic is Forever" was published in 101 Words today! 😃
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We're winding things down. No snow yet, but it was 41F when I left the house yesterday morning!

I missed one of your stories, but I'll be catching up on reading soon . . .

Is it necessary to advertise this? Glad I went to breakfast by myself this morning. Geez. 😂

Hi, Maria! How are you?

Postcard from the Road:

HST is not wrong. We all have to have someone to believe in. This, carved into a wall in downtown Missoula, Montana, late August '25 . . .

Feels great to be back after a 3-day sub-orbital test flight (details are classified but I can tell you they'd run out of monkeys) and learn my essay-flash-doodle "The Lesser Feats of Atlas" is up at The Airgonaut. I'm home again but still weightless!

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😆 You can always write the sequel.

I like what you’ve done here. I always called it “crapper barrel” anyway. 😅

Always my favorite @molotovlitzine.bsky.social #flashfiction contest to read. I love seeing new spins on tired old tropes as well as unique creations bubbling forth from writers’ mind cauldrons. 🧙 #flashmonster has been our annual October contest since 2014!

That caught my eye as well. 😮 🐇 🦌

Cool, would love to see some pics some day. Just picked up a new blade at the Buck factory in Idaho. You should stop by sometime if you haven't been already. Pretty cool showroom.

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It's that time of year again. We want to see your nasties, the dark entities you conjure and the ghouls you stitch together. Make them brutal, make them sympathetic, make them impossible to define.

#FlashMonster 2025 contest deadline Oct 15th. #flashfiction

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It's my birthday very soon so I'm shamelessly releasing my two collections in time 😀Four years of short fic writing is crammed into these two books of my published work. I'll have links to them soon, on the 'Zon, and hope you'll give one - or both - a looksee 🖤

A brown dog seen from behind looking at two cats sitting in a window.

“Come and play with us, Danny.”

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Late-day sun illuminates a field of Queen Anne's lace.

Some think world's #mundane
They sadly stagger through life
Blind to the magic

(My 📸) #vss365 #haiku

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Do you want to read my musings on creativity and craft, with snippets of my villain origin story? You can do so now in this cool new interview with the Bold Journey magazine

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#writesky #booksky #amwriting #interview