Michael Carter
@michaelcarter.bsky.social
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Michael Carter
@michaelcarter.bsky.social
· May 23
The Molotov Cocktail
Happenings at Mel’s Grocery by Michael Carter Mel doesn’t know what to do. People are getting sick. He thinks it’s someone visiting the chip aisle. But it’s me. I’m here behind the chips, and…
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Couldn't be happier to appear in the #FlashVillain mega issue alongside so many talented writers & friends with my ultra-weird tale! As always, tx to @molotovlitzine.bsky.social & @mlenoirbond.bsky.social for hosting/judging these cool comps. Check it out:
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Flash Monster 2025
This is Halloween. I We Were Never Afraid of the Spider by Timothy Fox II In Darkness by Eoin Nordman III Toxoplasma Odocoileus by Colin Alexander IV Son of Seanfhocail by Joseph Gilbride V…
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October 31, 2025 at 2:48 PM
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Went with a simple pumpkin design this year. Roasting seeds today and handing out some candy later with The Shining playing in the background. Haven't picked a costume yet but I have all day. Happy Halloween everyone!
October 31, 2025 at 11:49 AM
Went with a simple pumpkin design this year. Roasting seeds today and handing out some candy later with The Shining playing in the background. Haven't picked a costume yet but I have all day. Happy Halloween everyone!
Dropping in from an extended, mood-enhancing SM break to congratulate everyone. Still the best comp out there, IMHO. Looking forward to the next one!
Time to see where things stand. #FlashMonster 2025 results are in!
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Flash Monster 2025 results
Let’s see how things stand… Body-invading creepy crawlies have wriggled their way to the top this year, with invasive spiders, snakes, parasites, and pathogens making a strong showing. …
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October 31, 2025 at 11:41 AM
Dropping in from an extended, mood-enhancing SM break to congratulate everyone. Still the best comp out there, IMHO. Looking forward to the next one!
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Can't wait to see what will emerge in our #FlashMonster contest. Deadline is October 15th.
We like literary approaches but also dig genre & pulpy takes as well. Art house or grindhouse. Subvert the usual monster tropes or create something nobody’s ever seen.
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We like literary approaches but also dig genre & pulpy takes as well. Art house or grindhouse. Subvert the usual monster tropes or create something nobody’s ever seen.
themolotovcocktail.com/flash-monste...
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September 5, 2025 at 8:20 PM
Can't wait to see what will emerge in our #FlashMonster contest. Deadline is October 15th.
We like literary approaches but also dig genre & pulpy takes as well. Art house or grindhouse. Subvert the usual monster tropes or create something nobody’s ever seen.
themolotovcocktail.com/flash-monste...
We like literary approaches but also dig genre & pulpy takes as well. Art house or grindhouse. Subvert the usual monster tropes or create something nobody’s ever seen.
themolotovcocktail.com/flash-monste...
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Happy Saturday! Totally psyched that my micro "Plastic is Forever" was published in 101 Words today! 😃
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Plastic Is Forever - 101 Words
2022: Microplastics are first detected in human blood. 2025: Evidence mounts that plastic particles have infiltrated every part of the […]
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September 6, 2025 at 12:25 PM
Happy Saturday! Totally psyched that my micro "Plastic is Forever" was published in 101 Words today! 😃
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Is it necessary to advertise this? Glad I went to breakfast by myself this morning. Geez. 😂
September 6, 2025 at 3:06 PM
Is it necessary to advertise this? Glad I went to breakfast by myself this morning. Geez. 😂
Postcard from the Road:
HST is not wrong. We all have to have someone to believe in. This, carved into a wall in downtown Missoula, Montana, late August '25 . . .
HST is not wrong. We all have to have someone to believe in. This, carved into a wall in downtown Missoula, Montana, late August '25 . . .
September 5, 2025 at 1:14 PM
Postcard from the Road:
HST is not wrong. We all have to have someone to believe in. This, carved into a wall in downtown Missoula, Montana, late August '25 . . .
HST is not wrong. We all have to have someone to believe in. This, carved into a wall in downtown Missoula, Montana, late August '25 . . .
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Feels great to be back after a 3-day sub-orbital test flight (details are classified but I can tell you they'd run out of monkeys) and learn my essay-flash-doodle "The Lesser Feats of Atlas" is up at The Airgonaut. I'm home again but still weightless!
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September 2, 2025 at 3:05 PM
Feels great to be back after a 3-day sub-orbital test flight (details are classified but I can tell you they'd run out of monkeys) and learn my essay-flash-doodle "The Lesser Feats of Atlas" is up at The Airgonaut. I'm home again but still weightless!
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Always my favorite @molotovlitzine.bsky.social #flashfiction contest to read. I love seeing new spins on tired old tropes as well as unique creations bubbling forth from writers’ mind cauldrons. 🧙 #flashmonster has been our annual October contest since 2014!
It's that time of year again. We want to see your nasties, the dark entities you conjure and the ghouls you stitch together. Make them brutal, make them sympathetic, make them impossible to define.
#FlashMonster 2025 contest deadline Oct 15th. #flashfiction
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#FlashMonster 2025 contest deadline Oct 15th. #flashfiction
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August 26, 2025 at 7:14 PM
Always my favorite @molotovlitzine.bsky.social #flashfiction contest to read. I love seeing new spins on tired old tropes as well as unique creations bubbling forth from writers’ mind cauldrons. 🧙 #flashmonster has been our annual October contest since 2014!
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It's that time of year again. We want to see your nasties, the dark entities you conjure and the ghouls you stitch together. Make them brutal, make them sympathetic, make them impossible to define.
#FlashMonster 2025 contest deadline Oct 15th. #flashfiction
themolotovcocktail.com/flash-monste...
#FlashMonster 2025 contest deadline Oct 15th. #flashfiction
themolotovcocktail.com/flash-monste...
prepare for new horror is written in white on a black background
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August 21, 2025 at 6:03 PM
It's that time of year again. We want to see your nasties, the dark entities you conjure and the ghouls you stitch together. Make them brutal, make them sympathetic, make them impossible to define.
#FlashMonster 2025 contest deadline Oct 15th. #flashfiction
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#FlashMonster 2025 contest deadline Oct 15th. #flashfiction
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It's my birthday very soon so I'm shamelessly releasing my two collections in time 😀Four years of short fic writing is crammed into these two books of my published work. I'll have links to them soon, on the 'Zon, and hope you'll give one - or both - a looksee 🖤
August 21, 2025 at 3:49 PM
It's my birthday very soon so I'm shamelessly releasing my two collections in time 😀Four years of short fic writing is crammed into these two books of my published work. I'll have links to them soon, on the 'Zon, and hope you'll give one - or both - a looksee 🖤
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“Come and play with us, Danny.”
August 21, 2025 at 12:47 PM
“Come and play with us, Danny.”
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August 21, 2025 at 1:47 PM
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Do you want to read my musings on creativity and craft, with snippets of my villain origin story? You can do so now in this cool new interview with the Bold Journey magazine
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#writesky #booksky #amwriting #interview
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#writesky #booksky #amwriting #interview
August 19, 2025 at 6:10 PM
Do you want to read my musings on creativity and craft, with snippets of my villain origin story? You can do so now in this cool new interview with the Bold Journey magazine
boldjourney.com/meet-fiona-e...
🌶️📚💙📚
#writesky #booksky #amwriting #interview
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🌶️📚💙📚
#writesky #booksky #amwriting #interview
Record or near record high temp today in the Northern Rockies. In two months we'll have had a few days below freezing and likely our first snow!
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August 20, 2025 at 1:06 AM
Record or near record high temp today in the Northern Rockies. In two months we'll have had a few days below freezing and likely our first snow!
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Today's sky = 10/10
August 19, 2025 at 11:42 PM
Today's sky = 10/10
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Artist’s Point in Yellowstone National Park. Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone.
August 19, 2025 at 12:26 PM
Artist’s Point in Yellowstone National Park. Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone.
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“It’s alive! It’s alive!”
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#FlashMonster #flashfiction #themolotovcocktail @molotovlitzine.bsky.social
August 17, 2025 at 5:10 AM
“It’s alive! It’s alive!”
#FlashMonster #flashfiction #themolotovcocktail @molotovlitzine.bsky.social
#FlashMonster #flashfiction #themolotovcocktail @molotovlitzine.bsky.social
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Stonehenge has always captured my imagination, and I loved #writing this #scifi story about its true purpose. Just published in MetaStellar magazine (earlier version pub'd by the fab Owl Hollow Press)! #SciFiSat
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The Beacon - MetaStellar
A mysterious object discovered in a melting glacier reveals the true history of Stonehenge and the Sphinx, rewriting Earth's past as well as its future.
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August 16, 2025 at 5:14 PM
Stonehenge has always captured my imagination, and I loved #writing this #scifi story about its true purpose. Just published in MetaStellar magazine (earlier version pub'd by the fab Owl Hollow Press)! #SciFiSat
www.metastellar.com/fiction/the-...
www.metastellar.com/fiction/the-...
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August 15, 2025 at 6:23 PM
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#FlashMonster 2025 contest now open to submissions. #flashfiction #writingcontest
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Flash Monster 2025
“There’s a monster inside each of us.” – Catriona Ward Submit to Flash Monster Back at it again with Flash Monster 2025, our 12th annual monster-themed contest. Last year we…
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August 15, 2025 at 7:57 PM
#FlashMonster 2025 contest now open to submissions. #flashfiction #writingcontest
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If one encounters a Boneyard cocktail lounge on one’s travels, one must stop. And if one stops, one must of course order the “Hello, Clarice,” whether one is a mixed drink drinker or not.
August 14, 2025 at 3:20 PM
If one encounters a Boneyard cocktail lounge on one’s travels, one must stop. And if one stops, one must of course order the “Hello, Clarice,” whether one is a mixed drink drinker or not.
Perfect day on the Big Blackfoot, near Bonner, Montana . . .
August 10, 2025 at 11:46 PM
Perfect day on the Big Blackfoot, near Bonner, Montana . . .
I saw Halloween decorations in the stores late July, and now of course back-to-school stuff. Sorry, summer is not over for me. On the Road again today. It's hammer time!
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August 9, 2025 at 1:06 PM
I saw Halloween decorations in the stores late July, and now of course back-to-school stuff. Sorry, summer is not over for me. On the Road again today. It's hammer time!
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Moon fruit ripe for the picking.
August 9, 2025 at 3:00 AM
Moon fruit ripe for the picking.