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mike 📚

@mguajardowrites.bsky.social
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sff writer, cinema enjoyer, nancy boy. nyc/arlington, tx

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mike 📚 @mguajardowrites.bsky.social · 11h
so there’s this awesome story …. www.3lobedmag.com/issue48/3lbe...
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3LBE Magazine - Lady Night's Menagerie by Rachael K. Jones
If Lady Night catches me, it'll mean much worse than death. She'll punish me like she did my father, stretching out his skin to make herself a living umbrella, and she'll say she doled out an honor.
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mike 📚 @mguajardowrites.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
thank you so much Sara!! 🥹♥️♥️
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mike 📚 @mguajardowrites.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
sooo this sounds awesome — can’t wait to read!
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HiddenScifi.com @hiddenscifi.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
In Seanan McGuire’s new free story “Children of Calliope,” a future school system bans poetry. A student finds a withdrawn Poe volume in her half-empty library and brings its verses to the school board. #SciFi #ShortFiction www.uncannymagazine.com/article/chi…
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Children of Calliope - Uncanny Magazine
By the early days of the twenty-first century, advocates of book bans had managed, however accidentally, to elevate their hobby to the level of near-religion, and with it created a class of concepts that could only be called into existence if a person read them in a book. By controlling what children could read outside […]
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mike 📚 @mguajardowrites.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
obsessed with this, thank u @othersidespec.bsky.social & @kristinaten.bsky.social 🙏🙏🙏 othersidespec.com/pieces/ivan-...
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Ivan Ivanovich - OTHERSIDE
It’s two in the morning and Ivan Ivanovich won’t stop throwing himself against the side of my car. I wake to the insistent blare of the Altima’s impact alarm. The first time he did this, I shoved my d...
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mike 📚 @mguajardowrites.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
i loooove to click that “view recent responses from this market” tab
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mike 📚 @mguajardowrites.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
i’m trying so unsuccessfully not to look 😭😭😭
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mike 📚 @mguajardowrites.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
trying not to check the submission status on my story that’s being held by a magazine i like
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Jenni Tolls @jennitolls.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Decode by paramore ass weather
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mike 📚 @mguajardowrites.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
finished the draft, just needed to step away for a sec - really excited to edit this one, yay!
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mike 📚 @mguajardowrites.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
16 pages so far, plus 10 pages of outtakes. wrote an ending that felt so incorrect it won’t leave me alone. we’ll see how long it takes to arrive somewhere nice
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mike 📚 @mguajardowrites.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
writing a new story, outlined beforehand, have tried sticking to the outline & diverging from it, but just can’t find this story’s shape. agghh
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mike 📚 @mguajardowrites.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
the executioner had better be prepared i will NOT go easy, the power of the new CRJ is on my side 🙂‍↕️🙂‍↕️🙂‍↕️
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mike 📚 @mguajardowrites.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
had a day so good it can only mean im about to be executed
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X-R-A-Y @xraylitmag.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
in case u missed it ! this melancholy bullet by Mike Guajardo-Bennet @mguajardowrites.bsky.social is so beautiful & real <3 give it a read !
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mike 📚 @mguajardowrites.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
thank you!! glad you liked it 🥳
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mike 📚 @mguajardowrites.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
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X-R-A-Y @xraylitmag.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
hi ! namecheap, our hosting domain, went down. our site was down for most of the day, but now it's back. read today’s story if u didn’t get a chance ! another day we’ll promote mike’s wonderful story again, since technology got in the way. thank u for reading !
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mike 📚 @mguajardowrites.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
bumping, as the website is back up!
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mike 📚 @mguajardowrites.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
i have a new micro out at @xraylitmag.bsky.social !!
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X-R-A-Y @xraylitmag.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
we have a 50 word micro by Mike Guajardo-Bennett @mguajardowrites.bsky.social ! in three sentences, the author describes a feeling so infectiously that you'll feel it too here's to sleepless, lovelorn nights on planet Earth xraylitmag.com/night-by-mik...
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mike 📚 @mguajardowrites.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
spec fiction folks - recommendations for cryptid short stories? looking for any in online magazines especially!
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A Whole Damn Town! @im.a.whole.damn.town · 27/07/2026
Twin Peaks: Big Ed Hurley.
Big Ed Hurley. Twin Peaks S02E09 - Arbitrary Law.
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mike 📚 @mguajardowrites.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
thank you !!!
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mike 📚 @mguajardowrites.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
when i heard he was giving them out I knew i had to snag one 😁
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mike 📚 @mguajardowrites.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
favorite token from #readercon @clarkesworldmagazine.com
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mike 📚 @mguajardowrites.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
!!!
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AdultJunkDrawer @adultjunkdrawer.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
In my head it's a big ole floppy one.
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mike 📚 @mguajardowrites.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
important acquisition at #readercon
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mike 📚 @mguajardowrites.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
my tentative schedule #readercon
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mike 📚 @mguajardowrites.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
attending @readercon.org this weekend! fellow spec lit people hit me up if you wanna hang between panels 🥳
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mike 📚 @mguajardowrites.bsky.social · 29/08/2025
so cool 🔥🔥🔥
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mike 📚 @mguajardowrites.bsky.social · 29/08/2025
she’s protecting the photo albums ⚔️
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mike 📚 @mguajardowrites.bsky.social · 29/08/2025
people say this every year, and every year we continue to get great original movies 🙏🏼🙏🏼 keep it up guys
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mike 📚 @mguajardowrites.bsky.social · 29/08/2025
cutieeee 🥰🥰🥰
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mike 📚 @mguajardowrites.bsky.social · 29/08/2025
the clothing, the talismans, the decoy — really cool 🔥🔥🔥
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Three-Lobed Burning Eye magazine @3lobedmag.com · 27/08/2025
Today we are halfway done with the campaign, but only one-quarter of the way to our goal. It’s all or nothing. Please share, and any amount you can help is very appreciated. Horror and weird fiction are good for us. kck.st/4mIkEm1
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Three-Lobed Burning Eye magazine 2026
A digital literary magazine of horror, dark fantasy, and science fiction.
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mike 📚 @mguajardowrites.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
reeeeally good details in that one!! can’t wait to hear what you think 🥳
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mike 📚 @mguajardowrites.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
took a tally and discovered that i’ve read 112 (!) short stories this year so far
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Undertow Publications 🇨🇦 @undertow.bsky.social · 16/08/2025
Proof.
My hand clutching a proof copy of THE BEST WEIRD FICTION OF THE YEAR, VOL. 1
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bort @crushbort.bsky.social · 23/08/2025
rise and shine!!!
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mike 📚 @mguajardowrites.bsky.social · 23/08/2025
SO GOOD!!! got to see it as part of a maria felix retrospective last month. lovely, low-key story (the characters are fabulous) and the blocking is genuinely some of the best ever in film
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Spheal Posting @sphealposting.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
Pokemon rumble spheal saying "hope i don't have a long day" outside the long day factory
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mike 📚 @mguajardowrites.bsky.social · 23/08/2025
read clive barker’s “the forbidden” today (the basis for CANDYMAN) & loved these evocations of Lacan & Bataille 🩸🩸🩸
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vashíto @vashperado.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
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Carly @nautiluscarly.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
Support your public library. Defend your public library. Slay the enemies of your public library.
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mike 📚 @mguajardowrites.bsky.social · 19/08/2025
so good — that closing image is bizarre and gorgeous
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mike 📚 @mguajardowrites.bsky.social · 19/08/2025
i personally am on ms viridiana’s side; i think her faith in both humanity and her own power are beautiful and tragic!
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mike 📚 @mguajardowrites.bsky.social · 19/08/2025
watched Viridiana w/ my sister last night and this morning she’s mad because she keeps seeing reviews that call the title character a narcissist
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𖤐 Bri 𖤐 @brianimator.bsky.social · 19/08/2025
Wes Craven’s RED EYE starring Cillian Murphy and Rachel McAdams was released today in 2005 #filmsky
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