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Mike McClelland @magicmikewrites.bsky.social · 21/12/2025
I’m so excited to have a short story in the new Ink Issue of Crab Orchard Review. Thank you to legendary editor Allison Joseph for including the piece, and I’m so happy to share a ToC with my friend, poet genius Colleen Abel. It’s a quick read and has had such a funny trajectory. Link below!
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Mike McClelland @magicmikewrites.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
In a horrible twist of fate, a couple is getting engagement photos at the lake I run by after work, and the bride to be is wearing the same jumpsuit!
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Mike McClelland @magicmikewrites.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
Was trying for Link in the Fire Temple but ended up closer to prison jumpsuit. Either way, I’m fighting evil!
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Mike McClelland @magicmikewrites.bsky.social · 22/08/2025
And what do we think about the crop top for my first day of teaching? Too conservative?
Mike dressed in trashy jean shorts and a trashier purple crop top
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Mike McClelland @magicmikewrites.bsky.social · 22/08/2025
Back to school beauties, plus a picture from Simon’s PERFECT birthday gift, a trip to SporcleCon! Leo is starting second grade, Fox first, and I’m back at school for the (redacted) year. The plant fairy (my mom) visited my office today!
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Mike McClelland @magicmikewrites.bsky.social · 20/07/2025
The Nytimes crossword puzzle is speaking my language today!
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Mike McClelland @magicmikewrites.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
Danny’s incredible art
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Mike McClelland @magicmikewrites.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
I need everyone to know that I not only said yes but I invested in a Swarovski crystal troll because that is surely the answer the all of my problems
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Mike McClelland @magicmikewrites.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
There’s a rare, tropical brown booby roaming free in Indiana at the moment and no one knows how it got there!
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Mike McClelland @magicmikewrites.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
Happy happy pub day to @miriamgershow.bsky.social, whose novel is beautiful!
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Mike McClelland @magicmikewrites.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
Sometimes a book finds you (me!) at just the right time. I’m an @alinaetc.bsky.social superfan (and she introduced me to my new boyfriend, Rilke) and I have deep personal connections to Romania and to Alabama, both of which have such texture in Alina’s poetry. Alive, spiritual, inquisitive! Fun!
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Mike McClelland @magicmikewrites.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
My dear friend @arammrjoian.bsky.social has his debut novel out TODAY! You must read it. bookshop.org/p/books/wate...
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Mike McClelland @magicmikewrites.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
I’ve admired @charlesjensen.bsky.social’s poetry and memoir for so long (the fact that he’s hot and was on Jeopardy! has nothing to do with it I swear), so I was over the moon when he sent me these questions from his Writer’s Style Guide series. His newsletter, nanogram, is just wonderful. Such fun!
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Mike McClelland @magicmikewrites.bsky.social · 31/05/2025
I have a choir concert tomorrow and we are supposed to wear black pants and a colorful top. And I think I found the perfect one! 💖
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Mike McClelland @magicmikewrites.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
Why yes I even have crop tops for chilly days!
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Mike McClelland @magicmikewrites.bsky.social · 18/05/2025
Wandering around my house like a gay(er) Miss Havisham while my beautiful gay gothic hotel novel is on sub.
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Mike McClelland @magicmikewrites.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
If you love Blue Prince you’ll love my novel, call your editor! Call me!
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Mike McClelland @magicmikewrites.bsky.social · 12/04/2025
A fresh start? Or has he lost it? Why not both!
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Mike McClelland @magicmikewrites.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
Our sweet Fox is 6! He’s been a supernova of joy since the day he was born. He’s happy, generous, kind, smart, beautiful, and curious. He loves Bluey and WWE and baseball and his grandparents and his brother and reading and Minecraft and basically everything. We are so lucky to be his dads.
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Mike McClelland @magicmikewrites.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
Today’s reading theme is: new/newish books by absolutely amazing writers named Claire/Clare!
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Mike McClelland @magicmikewrites.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
The day has arrived! I finally have 666 unheard voicemails. Is the secret to forever in them? Is evil in them? Is this the 9th gate? Is my inbox Jacob’s Ladder? Surely there is some sort of apple-temptation-apple-iphone joke I should be making?
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Mike McClelland @magicmikewrites.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
I love you!
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Mike McClelland @magicmikewrites.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
Dressed like Trinity because we are breaking free from The Matrix today, people!
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Mike McClelland @magicmikewrites.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
I felt Serena in the atmosphere and then I turned to the tv and she was there! 😭😍
Serena Williams, the best athlete of all time, dancing onto the field during the halftime show
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Mike McClelland @magicmikewrites.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
Oh thank God! There’s a guide!
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Mike McClelland @magicmikewrites.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
David Lynch 🪽
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Mike McClelland @magicmikewrites.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
I love audio books. Did you have a favorite audio book from 2024?
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Mike McClelland @magicmikewrites.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
Is he back to teach for the Spring semester or about to offer you a moist toilette as you buckle your seatbelt and prepare for departure?
Mike is being extra in a navy blue romper and cameo pin
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Mike McClelland @magicmikewrites.bsky.social · 11/01/2025
I’m diving into Rilke because of beloveds like @alinaetc.bsky.social and @xiankiefer.bsky.social. I didn’t realize when I ordered him he would come with a side order of cake! #blessed
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Mike McClelland @magicmikewrites.bsky.social · 01/01/2025
Starting the reading year off with a thriller!
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Mike McClelland @magicmikewrites.bsky.social · 01/01/2025
It was a wonderful year for movies, but this is the one I can’t stop thinking about!
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Mike McClelland @magicmikewrites.bsky.social · 30/12/2024
I commissioned a Suspiria peacock from my dear friend @danielmiller.bsky.social and he went above and beyond. I am I love. Watch out, witches!
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Mike McClelland @magicmikewrites.bsky.social · 24/12/2024
2024 wasn’t everything we dreamed of and yet we still got hotter
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Mike McClelland @magicmikewrites.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
Leo dressed as Beethoven for his piano recital and Foxy is studying Candy Land architecture and their very extra fathers are so proud.
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Mike McClelland @magicmikewrites.bsky.social · 08/12/2024
I'm super excited to have a story in COME OUT, COME OUT WHEREVER YOU ARE, a new queer horror anthology by @inkedingraypress.bsky.social
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Mike McClelland @magicmikewrites.bsky.social · 07/12/2024
Dressed as a sugar plum for The Nutcracker
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Mike McClelland @magicmikewrites.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
I know I have extraordinary taste but this year I outdid myself
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Mike McClelland @magicmikewrites.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
I'm sharing this again because my bodycam video has leaked once more and has nearly half a million views in 2 weeks. Over 7,000 comments, 99% which are homophobic insults. My novel is on submission, and it concerns the same situation - a gay dad whose life is upended by an offensive viral video.
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Mike McClelland @magicmikewrites.bsky.social · 11/11/2024
Maybe she’s born with it
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Mike McClelland @magicmikewrites.bsky.social · 23/05/2024
Our sweet Leo graduated from kindergarten today. I’m a mess! 😍😭😍😭
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Mike McClelland @magicmikewrites.bsky.social · 08/03/2024
Here are 4 new or new-to-me books from small presses that I’ve loved this year. And all of these writers are wonderful people! You can get any of these books directly from the source: Sundress, Fireside (University Press of Kentucky), Black Lawrence, and Unicorn Press.
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Mike McClelland @magicmikewrites.bsky.social · 15/02/2024
Happy Valentine’s Day! I look deranged but I love you! Follow your dreams!
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Mike McClelland @magicmikewrites.bsky.social · 22/12/2023
Made it to South Africa with a little stop in Amsterdam on the way! Happy holidays beloveds!
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Mike McClelland @magicmikewrites.bsky.social · 27/11/2023
Oh no it’s seasonal sweater season!
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Mike McClelland @magicmikewrites.bsky.social · 20/11/2023
Rewatching and loving even more. Makes me miss Hong Kong. Perfect film. Such vibes!
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Mike McClelland @magicmikewrites.bsky.social · 13/10/2023
F. Scott Fitzgerald, or me to my Nintendo Switch as soon as my kids are in bed?
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