Michael Kiggins
@michaelkiggins.bsky.social
Just a writer (he/him) in Nashville. My debut novel AND THE TRAIN KEPT MOVING from @RunWildBooks was released on 9/1/2023. https://linktr.ee/michaelkiggins
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Thanks so much for the kind words. And @markroyse.bsky.social does a wonderful job narrating the audiobook. You give it a listen. www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B0CP...
December 1, 2025 at 12:31 AM
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Leonard Koscianski, American (1952- ), Birds of a Feather, 2024, oil on canvas, 42 x 26 in, private collection
November 11, 2025 at 5:34 PM
Leonard Koscianski, American (1952- ), Birds of a Feather, 2024, oil on canvas, 42 x 26 in, private collection
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Tried to like this for the second time today.
I think a lot about this quote from Anaïs Nin’s diary from 1939-1944:
“America is in even greater danger because of its cult of toughness, its hatred of sensitivity, and someday it may have to pay a price for this, because atrophy of feeling creates criminals”.
“America is in even greater danger because of its cult of toughness, its hatred of sensitivity, and someday it may have to pay a price for this, because atrophy of feeling creates criminals”.
October 31, 2025 at 1:31 AM
Tried to like this for the second time today.
Me, I’m a revision pig.
In terms of process, I enjoy writing but revising????? Oh, that’s my real kink. A second or third draft???? A fourth???? Making tweaks on my desktop AND my phone???? *moans* I’m a WHORE for revision.
October 21, 2025 at 6:52 PM
Me, I’m a revision pig.
Quit scrolling through social media theological debates.
Quit scrolling through social media theological debates.
Quit scrolling through social media theological debates.
Quit scrolling through social media theological debates.
Jesus Christ, my sanity.
Quit scrolling through social media theological debates.
Quit scrolling through social media theological debates.
Quit scrolling through social media theological debates.
Jesus Christ, my sanity.
October 2, 2025 at 11:17 AM
Quit scrolling through social media theological debates.
Quit scrolling through social media theological debates.
Quit scrolling through social media theological debates.
Quit scrolling through social media theological debates.
Jesus Christ, my sanity.
Quit scrolling through social media theological debates.
Quit scrolling through social media theological debates.
Quit scrolling through social media theological debates.
Jesus Christ, my sanity.
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What a weird-ass Rapture. Only the Constitution disappeared.
September 24, 2025 at 10:53 PM
What a weird-ass Rapture. Only the Constitution disappeared.
I mean, let it happen; it will be yet another Great Disappointment for those true believers, but 🤷🏻♂️
I....................
you know what? sure.
you know what? sure.
Shhh let them cook
September 24, 2025 at 11:35 PM
I mean, let it happen; it will be yet another Great Disappointment for those true believers, but 🤷🏻♂️
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It's Pizza Friday. We've earned this.
September 12, 2025 at 9:27 PM
It's Pizza Friday. We've earned this.
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Since many of us are cancelling streaming services, now might also be a good time to support writers and artists. Times are extremely tough for creatives, so why not buy a book, commission an art piece, sign up for a Patreon, tip your favorite creators. Everything helps.
September 19, 2025 at 6:35 PM
Since many of us are cancelling streaming services, now might also be a good time to support writers and artists. Times are extremely tough for creatives, so why not buy a book, commission an art piece, sign up for a Patreon, tip your favorite creators. Everything helps.
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Everyone please stop texting me I’m already on page three of a Cocaine Capybara script.
Pilot dies after plane carrying nearly 200kg of SpaceX-branded cocaine crashes in remote Brazil
Pilot dies after plane carrying 180kg of SpaceX-branded cocaine crashes in Brazil
www.independent.co.uk
September 16, 2025 at 10:25 PM
Everyone please stop texting me I’m already on page three of a Cocaine Capybara script.
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"bless our stupid, human hearts
believing that adam somehow
merited the power to name every animal..."
"psalm from a gulf coast garden" by Elisheva Fox
believing that adam somehow
merited the power to name every animal..."
"psalm from a gulf coast garden" by Elisheva Fox
psalm from a gulf coast garden — Susurrus
www.susurrusthemagazine.com
September 5, 2025 at 2:06 PM
"bless our stupid, human hearts
believing that adam somehow
merited the power to name every animal..."
"psalm from a gulf coast garden" by Elisheva Fox
believing that adam somehow
merited the power to name every animal..."
"psalm from a gulf coast garden" by Elisheva Fox
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my issue of Threepenny is here! here’s my poem “Present Tense,” I would love for you to give it a read!
“I know this so loudly I don’t
hear, at first, my father’s silence.”
“I know this so loudly I don’t
hear, at first, my father’s silence.”
September 2, 2025 at 9:06 PM
my issue of Threepenny is here! here’s my poem “Present Tense,” I would love for you to give it a read!
“I know this so loudly I don’t
hear, at first, my father’s silence.”
“I know this so loudly I don’t
hear, at first, my father’s silence.”
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Same, cicada, same.
September 2, 2025 at 11:19 PM
Same, cicada, same.
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My poem, My Father as Weather, in Rattle. rattle.com/my-father-as...
My Father as Weather by Chrissy Stegman - Rattle: Poetry
Each morning he rises
out of the scrub grass,
half-thought, half-threat.
The grass doesn’t scream,
just splits its dry mouth to cradle him.
rattle.com
August 30, 2025 at 8:49 PM
My poem, My Father as Weather, in Rattle. rattle.com/my-father-as...
Found this poor them when I opened my trunk. Oh, tiny Mothra, may you fly on and on.
August 22, 2025 at 1:58 PM
Found this poor them when I opened my trunk. Oh, tiny Mothra, may you fly on and on.
The five gayest acting “straight”guys just ordered coffee and matcha at my local breakfast spot, all of them wearing “Get Strong Ministry” shirts with 1 Timothy 4:8 emblazoned on the back.
August 22, 2025 at 1:39 PM
The five gayest acting “straight”guys just ordered coffee and matcha at my local breakfast spot, all of them wearing “Get Strong Ministry” shirts with 1 Timothy 4:8 emblazoned on the back.
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Holocaust Survivor Stephen Kapos delivers some rare truth on British television about Gaza:
‘I think the whole of the West is guilty in not opposing this strongly enough, particularly the mass media, which has been lying by omission...taking Israeli statements unchallenged’
‘I think the whole of the West is guilty in not opposing this strongly enough, particularly the mass media, which has been lying by omission...taking Israeli statements unchallenged’
August 22, 2025 at 3:33 AM
Holocaust Survivor Stephen Kapos delivers some rare truth on British television about Gaza:
‘I think the whole of the West is guilty in not opposing this strongly enough, particularly the mass media, which has been lying by omission...taking Israeli statements unchallenged’
‘I think the whole of the West is guilty in not opposing this strongly enough, particularly the mass media, which has been lying by omission...taking Israeli statements unchallenged’
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LOTS of great @toddedillard.bsky.social poems under the skulls! here's one:
www.havehashad.com/hadposts/i-d...
www.havehashad.com/hadposts/i-d...
I Don’t Know I Don’t Know by Todd Dillard
A note in my Notes App reads:
“Love Poems from the End of the World”
Beneath it a blankness
like a pool drained of its water
Beneath that a list of ingredients
to make beef bo...
www.havehashad.com
August 22, 2025 at 2:14 AM
LOTS of great @toddedillard.bsky.social poems under the skulls! here's one:
www.havehashad.com/hadposts/i-d...
www.havehashad.com/hadposts/i-d...
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I hope the folks involved here can rescue this David Wojnarowicz mural. hyperallergic.com/1034063/a-40...
40-Year-Old David Wojnarowicz Mural Resurfaces, Only to Be Hidden Again
The stewards of the artist’s legacy hope that a work miraculously discovered in Louisville, Kentucky, now covered up by the building’s developer, can see the light of day once more.
hyperallergic.com
August 20, 2025 at 9:21 PM
I hope the folks involved here can rescue this David Wojnarowicz mural. hyperallergic.com/1034063/a-40...
Classes start Monday. Have I finished my syllabi? Oh, sweet summer child…no.
August 20, 2025 at 2:54 PM
Classes start Monday. Have I finished my syllabi? Oh, sweet summer child…no.
Saw this today on my walk at the greenway.
August 20, 2025 at 2:51 PM
Saw this today on my walk at the greenway.
How your work email finds me
Inside you are two wolves, five sled dogs, eight Norwegian research scientists, Bennings, Norris, Palmer, Windows, Fuchs, Nauls, Blair, Garry, and Doc Copper.
August 19, 2025 at 11:15 PM
How your work email finds me
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Sorry for not texting you back I was obsessing about tragedies I’m powerless to change
August 13, 2025 at 4:11 AM
Sorry for not texting you back I was obsessing about tragedies I’m powerless to change
If you’re in a restaurant and going to talk to someone on the phone like you’re trying to be heard at a concert, just go the fuck outside. Like, I don’t need to hear guffawed recollections of racist jokes your father told you about his time in the Navy.
August 7, 2025 at 6:44 PM
If you’re in a restaurant and going to talk to someone on the phone like you’re trying to be heard at a concert, just go the fuck outside. Like, I don’t need to hear guffawed recollections of racist jokes your father told you about his time in the Navy.
I couldn’t have been happier hearing how @markroyse.bsky.social brought my novel to life. You all should give him a listen.
This literary psychological thriller from Michael Kiggins @michaelkiggins.bsky.social is one of my favorite projects. sbee.link/d8xktfbhv3 #audiobook #audiobooknarrator #audible #goodreads
July 24, 2025 at 5:03 PM
I couldn’t have been happier hearing how @markroyse.bsky.social brought my novel to life. You all should give him a listen.