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Michael Cisco
@michaelcisco.bsky.social
Writer, teacher, tormented, no fun
Well gosh! Thank you!
2025 Recommended Books (no order, read this year):

Black Brane, Michael Cisco @michaelcisco.bsky.social

Uncozy. Mind-bending, sad, funny, shocking, sometimes all at once. Dense, and earns that density. A diamond of a book that should be carbon nanotube dark but somehow isn't. Quite.

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December 27, 2025 at 7:03 AM
Happy holidays to all
December 25, 2025 at 11:04 PM
My thanks to the Blog Without a Face for their high praise of BLACK BRANE. It's an honor to be included among such great writers.

theblogwithoutaface.com/2025/12/22/b...
BWAF Selects: The Best Horror Books of 2025
Phew, what a year. Your freaky friends at BWAF are going to be taking an extended break over the holidays. We’ll be seeing you in 2026, but before that, want to welcome you to our annual roll…
theblogwithoutaface.com
December 23, 2025 at 5:00 PM
i'm sure glad to live in a time of civil political discourse and rational
December 23, 2025 at 1:10 AM
art by ... ah you know ...
December 20, 2025 at 6:35 PM
ah unfiltered excellent
December 19, 2025 at 7:02 PM
andrea calisi -- baba yaga not to be confused with santa
December 18, 2025 at 11:33 PM
Reposted by Michael Cisco
Hard no to this: French publisher Harlequin has told translators that their work will now be done by AI. They can ‘revise’ AI translations at much lower rate. It’s a subsidiary of Harper Collins so treat this as a test for rollout elsewhere
"Bradage de la traduction, plan social invisible : Harlequin passe à l’IA"

Faites tourner, parce qu'il va falloir se battre encore plus. :/

#traduction #IA #Harlequin #ATLF
December 18, 2025 at 9:48 PM
December 17, 2025 at 10:02 PM
stocking stuffer complete with uh
December 16, 2025 at 10:32 PM
olivier bonhomme -- bill evans i think
December 15, 2025 at 9:39 PM
December 14, 2025 at 5:56 PM
richard ahnert -- the other side
December 13, 2025 at 6:19 PM
wrote THE END ... it's a rough draft but it's a completed one
December 12, 2025 at 10:10 PM
witnesses, by gerry bergstein -- story prompt
December 12, 2025 at 7:27 PM
giuseppi bagetti -- that is one geometrical witches' sabbath
December 11, 2025 at 9:19 PM
Reposted by Michael Cisco
September 2026.
Cover art by Harry 0. Morris.
December 11, 2025 at 7:12 PM
carrie lingscheit -- global cat project
December 10, 2025 at 11:09 PM
jeanne bieruma oosting -- the deranged one
December 9, 2025 at 11:34 PM
art by kang cheol-gyu ... windy out
December 7, 2025 at 6:12 PM
pull back to show Fred's mom on the right brandishing a frying pan "oh no you don't you young hussy that's my son!" and behind her is Fred's dog with a colt pistol "ruff ruff ruff ruff, ruff ruff" and so on library of babeling out into a fractal infinity of all possible stories
December 6, 2025 at 7:17 PM
just putting this here no reason
December 6, 2025 at 7:07 PM
art by john brosio ... did you hear that? sounds like here comes the bride played on a theremin
December 5, 2025 at 9:19 PM
marc c green -- nyctophile
December 4, 2025 at 10:55 PM
it finally happened -- a good student of mine vanished from class about six weeks ago. this student reappeared today and explained that they had been in ICE detention in another state during that time. ICE needs to end. ICE needs to end. ICE needs to end.
December 3, 2025 at 11:38 PM