Mike Somes
illiterature13.bsky.social
Mike Somes
@illiterature13.bsky.social
Your favorite writer's least favorite writer
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if you accept the premise that Santa is always watching everyone, always updating his list, then every movie is, ultimately, a Christmas movie
December 4, 2025 at 2:38 PM
Hard at work on my WIP: A story about a grief-stricken Honest Abe who is eating his feelings after the death of his son called “Lincoln in the Larder”
October 8, 2025 at 12:22 AM
I feel this in my soul. My current plan for the spring semester is to be a ski instructor. Maybe I can put it on my CV as “lecturer in winter sports.”
Which I feel like, I as prepare to shuffle out CVs into the bone-dry windstorm of this year's job market, is about where I am. I have no opinions of success, but I can't quit, can't slack, because I'll at least have my bitter end.
August 31, 2025 at 10:51 PM
The only DOGE that gets to know what I worked on this week:
February 25, 2025 at 1:53 AM
As much as people make fun of the astrology and energy crystal girlies, RFK Jr. demonstrates that it’s the astrology and energy crystal guylies we really need to watch out for.
February 17, 2025 at 1:49 AM
Chiaroscuro
January 14, 2025 at 9:40 PM
I don’t have enough work out on submission, and I can tell this because I’m refreshing the status of a sub that I was explicitly told I’d not hear back about until February at the earliest
December 18, 2024 at 8:10 PM
Me when OSU and Michigan are not playing: Athletics departments actually lose money and are just diverting taxpayer dollars away from education

Me after Michigan wins again: I’m just a pig, feed me my football slop
November 30, 2024 at 9:15 PM
Orzo is pasta pretending to be rice. Risotto is rice pretending to be pasta.
November 24, 2024 at 7:42 PM
Petition to call posts on this site “Bloosks”
November 17, 2024 at 5:47 PM