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Tenebrous Press @tenebrouspress.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Rain couldn’t stop the Weird! We had a great weekend vending with @michaelallenrose.bsky.social & crew at Printers Row Lit Fest. Tenebrous 🤝 Bizarro palz 4 lyfe 🖤☠️

Tenebrous dancing in the rain with Laura Lee Bahr

Selling books in the rain with plastic tarps over the books

Tenebrous & some cool art at the pink line el station

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Brian Keene @briankeene.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

Horror Fiction Convention Guide: 1. StokerCon = Prom 2. Scares That Care’s AuthorCon = Homecoming 3. Horror Reader Weekend = Class trip 4. KillerCon = Place behind shop class where the metalheads hang out. 5. BizarroCon = Detention with the art kids & punk rockers. 6. Camp Necon = Teacher’s lounge

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The Midnight Society @midnightpals.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

Michael Allen Rose: welcome to the bizarre world of Michael allen rose Rose: oh my god! lady! no! stop! Rose: put your clothes back on! Rose: what if your husband were to see? Rose: i'm right here, michael Rose: sorry, i love your show, but i have to kill you both Rose: pew pew pew pew pew pew!!!

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Michael Allen Rose @michaelallenrose.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

Once again, I have found my way into the circle of the midnight pals! (Based on a true escapade).

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RedruM @dorsalstream.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

The horse op-ed is an instant classic. I can't tell you how much joy this piece gives me. It should be taught in every introductory writing class in no small part because the horse arguments are so compelling. "I have noticed that human children get to eat cake. But I am bigger than the children."

I Work Very Hard, And I Would Like To Try Cake

By A Horse

Hello. I am a horse. I work very hard at my job of being a horse. When humans say move the heavy thing, I move the heavy thing. When humans sit on top of me and pull on my head, I carry them where they want to go. The main food the humans give me is hay and oats. But I am thinking it would be nice to have a different food.

I am thinking I would like to try cake.

Yes, yes. Cake. I know all about it. When humans eat cake, it is in glad times. It is the food for a celebration, such as when a woman becomes 47. I have seen cake on the Fourth of July. When humans have a cake, they stand around it and clap hands and smile and say happy birthday at each other. Sometimes there are beautiful markings on a cake, such as balloons or a pink shape.

Sometimes the top of a cake is on fire and a boy must blow on the fire with mouth wind. This is the scariest cake. I do not want this kind. But I will eat any other cake. Any cake that is not the fire cake that tries to kill the boy.

Please understand: I do not get money for doing work. I do not get to go inside the house. All I am either doing my horse job or standing in my pen or eating food off the floor. I always do these things. But I have never once gotten cake and I would like it very much.

I have noticed that human children get to eat cake. But I am bigger than the children. I am more helpful to the farm. Children do not move the heavy things like me or let anyone ride on them. And yet they get cake. Maybe the humans will realize this. Maybe they will say, "You know who deserves cake? That horse. That horse whose back we are always on."

Every day I dream about what it will be like if I get to eat cake. Here is what will happen. First, I will walk to the cake and putt my nose at it like hrrfff to make and stomping my hooves to make sure it is not a snake. Then I will trot in a circle to show that I am a horse and I am large. After that, I will nuzzle the cake to …

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Michael Allen Rose @michaelallenrose.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

Bizarro Con is coming in May! This convention changed my life. If you make weird art, write things that live outside the walls of genre, love to create things that march to the beat of their own drummer, trust me: you won't regret it. Register today; see you in Portland! bizarrocon.com/registration/

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Registration

BizarroCon is an annual gathering of Bizarro Fiction writers, artists, performers, filmmakers, publishing professionals and fans.

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Michael Allen Rose @michaelallenrose.bsky.social · 28/12/2025

I haven't listened to this album in years and years... I'd practically forgotten about it until now! Thanks for the reminder!

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Michael Allen Rose @michaelallenrose.bsky.social · 27/12/2025

I made a video earlier this year that was originally meant as a print zine for my patreon, but I created a digital multimedia version as well. I've wanted to share it for a minute so I decided that would be a good time. I hope you enjoy it. Existentialist romantic that I am. youtu.be/giQhDmyrITs?...

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Maze Heart

YouTube video by Michael Rose

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Michael Allen Rose @michaelallenrose.bsky.social · 21/11/2025

I have a new story up called "To Make A Pie" which won 2nd prize in "An Ordinary Contest" over at @foofarawpress.bsky.social . Enjoy the madness! foofaraw.press/to-make-a-pie/

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🥧 To make a pie

by Michael Allen Rose

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Trollbreath Magazine @trollbreathmag.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

Happy Halloween, Blessed Samhain, or TGIF. Whatever this day means to you, you deserve to laugh at life and unlife. Free Fiction Friday: Rashomonster by Michael Allen Rose magazine.trollbreath.com/rashomonster... @michaelallenrose.bsky.social

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Rashomonster - Trollbreath Magazine

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Michael Allen Rose @michaelallenrose.bsky.social · 13/10/2025

I was interviewed by the Mentally Oddcast. Learn more about how my creativity and mental illness entwine (or don't) and listen to us talk about horror and comedy, art and writing, and the remarkable resistance of the weird kid. zencastr.com/z/ge6iOhXc

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Guest: Michael Allen Rose by @Wednesday Lee Friday

Michael Allen Rose [http://linktr.ee/michaelallenrose] talk horror and comedy, writing and art, and the remarkable resilience of the weird kid. We examine the changeable nature of success, wonder what...

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Michael Allen Rose @michaelallenrose.bsky.social · 09/09/2025

Can I go 9 for 9? WHAT THIS MEANS FOR YOU: KEEP SUBMITTING. This is working because I'm making myself SEND OUT STORIES. As hard as that is, as much as it feels like spinning wheels sometimes, DO IT. It's the only way. You have my sword. <3 Cat pic for tax. (Dr. Light edits all my work)

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Michael Allen Rose @michaelallenrose.bsky.social · 09/09/2025

In addition to those sales above, I have written a review of Kathe Koja's rereleased book "Skin" for a blog called Zona Motel zonamotel.substack.com/p/review-ski...

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REVIEW: Skin by Kathe Koja

Michael Allen Rose on the new edition of Skin by Kathe Koja, published by Meerkat Press this past April

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Michael Allen Rose @michaelallenrose.bsky.social · 09/09/2025

Last month, I received word that the podcast Tales to Terrify wanted Had He Tongue To Speak (8,412 words) which is a horror story I've been trying to find the right place for. It's going to be an audio production version, not a written/printed one! More on that when the production is ready to go!

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Michael Allen Rose @michaelallenrose.bsky.social · 09/09/2025

I was incredibly excited to place my horror comedy Rashomonster (4,650 words) in an upcoming issue of Trollbreath Magazine. Cool people doing a very cool magazine. Keep an eye out, as when spooky season comes there's a rumor I might be the free story past the paywall... magazine.trollbreath.com

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Issue 5, Fall 2025 - Trollbreath Magazine

Issue 5, Fall 2025 Fiction La Forêt de Fontainebleu, Les Chasseurs, Le Renard by Aimee Ogden The Water Dragons of Harney County by B. Morris Allen The Machines are Hungry by Maressa Voss Gracie ...

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Michael Allen Rose @michaelallenrose.bsky.social · 09/09/2025

Then, a short horror story of mine based around the spreading water damage in my apartment ceiling The Stain (2,950 words) was published in an anthology called Costs of Living (put out by Whisper House Press) which is now available. whisperhousepress.com

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Whisper House Press

Mundane horror for the people.

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Michael Allen Rose @michaelallenrose.bsky.social · 09/09/2025

One of my stories, Gumball (2,560 words) a literary comedy based on a real life incident from when I was a kid was bought for the Fooferaw Anthology. foofaraw.press

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foofaraw

a zine of surreal storytelling and worldly observations

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Michael Allen Rose @michaelallenrose.bsky.social · 09/09/2025

Then, Gil Malone (2,428 words) my aquatic crime comedy was accepted for the Murderfish anthology (from WonderBird Press) which is coming out later this year (they just finished up a kickstarter campaign themselves and their anthologies are gorgeous). www.mikejackstoumbos.com/wonderbird-p...

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WonderBird Press | Mike Jack Stoumbos

WonderBird Press publishes scifi, fantasy, and humor anthologies and is invested in the continuing growth and education of emerging authors.

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Michael Allen Rose @michaelallenrose.bsky.social · 09/09/2025

I sold my short story Sir Percieval and the Dragon (2,232 words) A cozy fantasy to Dragon Mythicana (an anthology from Inkd Publishing which was published earlier this year. Maybe the cutest thing I've ever written.

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Michael Allen Rose @michaelallenrose.bsky.social · 09/09/2025

I haven't updated ya'll on things in a minute, so I thought I'd take a quick second to spread some happy news. In the first 8 months of 2025, I have been paid for 8 STORIES. 8 for 8!!! The momentum is wild and I'm feeling pretty good (take THAT, imposter syndrome!)

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Michael Allen Rose @michaelallenrose.bsky.social · 27/07/2025

With over 200 backers and growing, we're entering the final few days to back "Stories From The Motel Sick," the next anthology from RoShamBo Publishing! If you want to support us on the ground floor, you have until midnight on the 31st to do it! www.kickstarter.com/projects/mic...

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Stories From The Motel Sick

A genre-bending anthology about a metaphysical motel featuring rooms with every possible theme in the universe

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Michael Allen Rose @michaelallenrose.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

We have so much momentum already! Join us and get some really cool stuff from the next universe over, and to the left. Check out Stories From The Motel Sick by Michael Allen Rose on @kickstarter.com www.kickstarter.com/projects/mic...

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Stories From The Motel Sick

A genre-bending anthology about a metaphysical motel featuring rooms with every possible theme in the universe

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Lila Denning @vantine.bsky.social · 14/06/2025

One of the best at reading ! You should watch @michaelallenrose.bsky.social if you get a chance. #stokercon2025

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Michael Allen Rose @michaelallenrose.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

New Flash Fiction Friday drop on Bizarro Central: How To Be Boring. tinyurl.com/yn6f2fwd

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How to Be Boring – Bizarro Central

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Elizabeth Broadbent @elizabethbroadbent.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

Every night my children demand I read them speeches from @michaelallenrose.bsky.social’s Inappropriate Toasts for All Occasions. I loudly declaim them while they crack up and then riot for more. It’s actually kind of amazing. Thanks to Michael and @madnessheartpress.bsky.social for this gem ♥️

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GHOULISH BOOKS WILL KILL YOUR PARENTS @ghoulish.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

Ghouls! Make sure you don't miss our mass author signing this Saturday during the Ghoulish Book Festival in San Antonio. Ak'chamel will be performing live, spooktastic music during shopping hours 8:30pm-10pm! This signing/performance is FREE TO THE PUBLIC!

promo flyer advertising the band playing

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Michael Allen Rose @michaelallenrose.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

@ghoulish.bsky.social It's time for the Ghoulish Book Festival. I'm ready to get spooky in San Antonio! How about y'all? #ghoulish

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Michael Allen Rose @michaelallenrose.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

Mine is the only "mu$k" worth smelling.

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Michael Allen Rose @michaelallenrose.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

Michael Allen Rose will be appearing in person at @ghoulish.bsky.social Ghoulish Book Festival 2025 after a 32 HOUR TRAIN RIDE IN COACH. Come visit. Buy my books, watch me do things, come in for a hug and smell my enchanting musk.

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Michael Allen Rose @michaelallenrose.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

Putting the first draft of a new short story in front of editor Christine Morgan is like putting a head in front of a loaded shotgun, knowing 100% that the resulting spatter promises to be a much better story. She's a gem.

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Michael Allen Rose @michaelallenrose.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

12 years ago on a Megabus <video> ..please use only the rear stairs to access the restroom while the bus is in motion. If you need assistance while in the restroom-(Audio cuts out) <bus driver>: No assistance will be provided. Don't even ask. (Audio cuts in) <video> ..hand sanitizer is available.

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Michael Allen Rose @michaelallenrose.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

Nothing brightens one's day like coffee with rising literary superstar Cynthia Pelayo. She's a real one, yo.

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Michael Allen Rose @michaelallenrose.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

2 years after it dropped on Bandcamp, my album Paraben Torpor is available everywhere you can find music! ReGen Magazine called it a "striking EP that embodies Rose’s penchant for experimentation and innovation, delivering an electrifyingly chaotic aural experience." share.amuse.io/album/flood-...

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Amuse

Create smart music links that anyone can listen to!

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Michael Allen Rose @michaelallenrose.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

75% of my readers are cats. Teach them to cook with my self help satire: "Inappropriate Toasts for all Occasions," available now!

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Michael Allen Rose @michaelallenrose.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

Inappropriate Toasts for all Occasions is a satirical look at public speaking. But is it ART?!?

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Michael Allen Rose @michaelallenrose.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

My new book Inappropriate Toasts for all Occasions is out. It's a very silly satire of public speaking courses that goes weird real fast. Help me afford sandwiches and buy a copy today!

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Michael Allen Rose @michaelallenrose.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

Support indie lit and small press today and all days. <3 shop.ingramspark.com/b/084?6iRZ1D...

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Michael Allen Rose @michaelallenrose.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

Bored? Restless? Haven't gotten your hands on the Fragile Anthology yet, but want to support small press shenanigans? This week, fees are waived for us if you buy direct, which means more of your money goes directly to us so we can make more books! Order direct: shop.ingramspark.com/b/084?params...

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Michael Allen Rose @michaelallenrose.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

I'd like to take a moment to wish a happy birthday to my beautiful partner Sauda @saudanamir.bsky.social Without her support, I wouldn't be able to do the things I do. She's talented, gorgeous, intelligent, supportive, and cares deeply about boosting writers and artists. I'm so glad she's here. ❤️

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Michael Allen Rose @michaelallenrose.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

"Why was that sex scene even IN the movie?" "To distract them."

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Premee Mohamed @premeemohamed.com · 16/11/2024

READ PEOPLE'S BACKLISTS THE MOST RECENT BOOK ISN'T THE ONLY BOOK THIS HAS BEEN A PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT FROM A GIANT BUG

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Ginger Coffee Creams of Horror @gnofhorror.com · 17/11/2024

All this talk about echo chambers. My take is this. I look at social media spaces as an extension of my living room, if I wouldn't want you in my home I don't want you here. And my home doesn't welcome racists, homophobia, Transphobia, misogyny and all other manners of right wingers.

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