Mike Wilson
@mikemwilson.bsky.social
words // American Literary Review, Barrelhouse, Lost Balloon, Necessary Fiction, NPR, The Rumpus, X-R-A-Y
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Thinking of doing a right wing grift by writing patriotic erotica, I’ll call it Patr-erotica.
June 23, 2025 at 4:35 PM
Thinking of doing a right wing grift by writing patriotic erotica, I’ll call it Patr-erotica.
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I've had this bookmarked for a bit, and thought I'd pop it open on Father's Day. @mikemwilson.bsky.social originally said "It's kind of grim," and DAMN he was right. But it's the best kind of grim, the kind that makes you think about yourself and the people around you in a deeper way.
"Our daughter had blood cancer, the type 80% of people who get it survive. The thing about that is it’s a hopeful number, that eighty percent. Gives you a false sense of hope. Just about anyone would place a bet on eight out of ten odds. But there’s a whole other twenty percent."
-Mike Wilson
-Mike Wilson
Handbook for the Living - Identity Theory
People stare at me when I leave the house.
www.identitytheory.com
June 15, 2025 at 8:44 PM
I've had this bookmarked for a bit, and thought I'd pop it open on Father's Day. @mikemwilson.bsky.social originally said "It's kind of grim," and DAMN he was right. But it's the best kind of grim, the kind that makes you think about yourself and the people around you in a deeper way.
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“The only thing hanging in the closet now is the suit. Waiting for me. Like a Wall Street Grim Reaper.”
This matter-of-fact heartbreaker by @mikemwilson.bsky.social is going to stay with me. What a perfect short story.
This matter-of-fact heartbreaker by @mikemwilson.bsky.social is going to stay with me. What a perfect short story.
Handbook for the Living - Identity Theory
People stare at me when I leave the house.
www.identitytheory.com
June 4, 2025 at 2:57 PM
“The only thing hanging in the closet now is the suit. Waiting for me. Like a Wall Street Grim Reaper.”
This matter-of-fact heartbreaker by @mikemwilson.bsky.social is going to stay with me. What a perfect short story.
This matter-of-fact heartbreaker by @mikemwilson.bsky.social is going to stay with me. What a perfect short story.
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Really great, powerful, stunner of a story from @mikemwilson.bsky.social
"If this is true he’s doing a cool thing for my wife. His wife. Our wife. It can’t be easy to come over here and tell the dying ex that she doesn’t want to see him anymore, to help us break up all over again."
"If this is true he’s doing a cool thing for my wife. His wife. Our wife. It can’t be easy to come over here and tell the dying ex that she doesn’t want to see him anymore, to help us break up all over again."
"Our daughter had blood cancer, the type 80% of people who get it survive. The thing about that is it’s a hopeful number, that eighty percent. Gives you a false sense of hope. Just about anyone would place a bet on eight out of ten odds. But there’s a whole other twenty percent."
-Mike Wilson
-Mike Wilson
Handbook for the Living - Identity Theory
People stare at me when I leave the house.
www.identitytheory.com
June 3, 2025 at 7:55 PM
Really great, powerful, stunner of a story from @mikemwilson.bsky.social
"If this is true he’s doing a cool thing for my wife. His wife. Our wife. It can’t be easy to come over here and tell the dying ex that she doesn’t want to see him anymore, to help us break up all over again."
"If this is true he’s doing a cool thing for my wife. His wife. Our wife. It can’t be easy to come over here and tell the dying ex that she doesn’t want to see him anymore, to help us break up all over again."
It ain’t a true Midwestern childhood unless you were traumatized by tornado sirens half a dozen times a year while your dad drank cans of Bud in a lawn chair out in the driveway as the hail started falling.
June 3, 2025 at 8:05 PM
It ain’t a true Midwestern childhood unless you were traumatized by tornado sirens half a dozen times a year while your dad drank cans of Bud in a lawn chair out in the driveway as the hail started falling.
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I don’t read many new stories anymore. But this one by @mikemwilson.bsky.social was quite good.
Handbook for the Living - Identity Theory
People stare at me when I leave the house.
www.identitytheory.com
June 2, 2025 at 12:38 PM
I don’t read many new stories anymore. But this one by @mikemwilson.bsky.social was quite good.
Sharing this again because who knows when I’ll publish another one. www.identitytheory.com/handbook-for...
June 3, 2025 at 1:23 AM
Sharing this again because who knows when I’ll publish another one. www.identitytheory.com/handbook-for...
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had the best time reading my new short story at small press nite with @kevinmkearney.bsky.social at the book catapult — his novel Freelance is out from @rejectionlit.bsky.social now & you should order your copy
June 2, 2025 at 3:04 PM
had the best time reading my new short story at small press nite with @kevinmkearney.bsky.social at the book catapult — his novel Freelance is out from @rejectionlit.bsky.social now & you should order your copy
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No biggie, just @mikemwilson.bsky.social out here with another stunner to get me all teary-eyed to start my day.
"Our daughter had blood cancer, the type 80% of people who get it survive. The thing about that is it’s a hopeful number, that eighty percent. Gives you a false sense of hope. Just about anyone would place a bet on eight out of ten odds. But there’s a whole other twenty percent."
-Mike Wilson
-Mike Wilson
Handbook for the Living - Identity Theory
People stare at me when I leave the house.
www.identitytheory.com
June 2, 2025 at 12:23 PM
No biggie, just @mikemwilson.bsky.social out here with another stunner to get me all teary-eyed to start my day.
Really grateful to Identity Theory for publishing this. It’s an extremely sad story and I’m very proud of it.
"Our daughter had blood cancer, the type 80% of people who get it survive. The thing about that is it’s a hopeful number, that eighty percent. Gives you a false sense of hope. Just about anyone would place a bet on eight out of ten odds. But there’s a whole other twenty percent."
-Mike Wilson
-Mike Wilson
Handbook for the Living - Identity Theory
People stare at me when I leave the house.
www.identitytheory.com
June 2, 2025 at 2:09 AM
Really grateful to Identity Theory for publishing this. It’s an extremely sad story and I’m very proud of it.
So I guess 40 is the age when the nose hairs really make their move.
May 22, 2025 at 12:59 AM
So I guess 40 is the age when the nose hairs really make their move.
I’m always jonesing for a new haunted Jones. Love this one so much.
I have another new story in HAD today! it’s from the short story collection I’ve been working on (along with my other recent ones in @havehashad.com & Short Story Long)—so grateful to @aaronburch.bsky.social & any of you who read my fiction ♡ www.havehashad.com/hadposts/mis...
May 22, 2025 at 12:53 AM
I’m always jonesing for a new haunted Jones. Love this one so much.
@themountaingoats.bsky.social I am at a museum and just ran into some Mountain Goats
May 5, 2025 at 3:56 PM
@themountaingoats.bsky.social I am at a museum and just ran into some Mountain Goats
“NAME ALL SPORTS TEAMS AFTER BIRDS!” — Jonathan Franzen, probably
April 7, 2025 at 1:03 PM
“NAME ALL SPORTS TEAMS AFTER BIRDS!” — Jonathan Franzen, probably
Have been reading/thinking about 20th century NYC publishing and it’s a bummer how much it seemed to depend on a rich person here and there with decent taste to publish great books that barely sold.
April 5, 2025 at 1:33 PM
Have been reading/thinking about 20th century NYC publishing and it’s a bummer how much it seemed to depend on a rich person here and there with decent taste to publish great books that barely sold.
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I have a new story in @havehashad.com today! my third one 💀 🏚️ ✨ grateful as always to editor @aaronburch.bsky.social for providing a wonderful home for my words + to all of you who read it ♡ www.havehashad.com/hadposts/the...
March 31, 2025 at 3:49 PM
I have a new story in @havehashad.com today! my third one 💀 🏚️ ✨ grateful as always to editor @aaronburch.bsky.social for providing a wonderful home for my words + to all of you who read it ♡ www.havehashad.com/hadposts/the...
Read this one by @anniejowrites.bsky.social and let that last line absolutely hit you right in the heart.
www.havehashad.com/hadposts/the...
www.havehashad.com/hadposts/the...
The Haunted House of Things Left Unsaid by Anna Vangala Jones
Everyone’s heard the rumors that when you die, they take you into a house you’ve never seen before—real dilapidated and creepy for added effect maybe—and in each room, they make you watch people from ...
www.havehashad.com
March 31, 2025 at 11:08 PM
Read this one by @anniejowrites.bsky.social and let that last line absolutely hit you right in the heart.
www.havehashad.com/hadposts/the...
www.havehashad.com/hadposts/the...
One thing I love about my daughter being a theater kid is sometimes she walks into the kitchen and for no reason at all starts speaking in an incomprehensible Scottish accent.
March 28, 2025 at 2:07 PM
One thing I love about my daughter being a theater kid is sometimes she walks into the kitchen and for no reason at all starts speaking in an incomprehensible Scottish accent.
Whenever I see a person with a carton of 18 eggs in their basket at the store I’m like “GET THE FUCK OUT OF HERE, BILLIONAIRE!”
March 15, 2025 at 11:32 PM
Whenever I see a person with a carton of 18 eggs in their basket at the store I’m like “GET THE FUCK OUT OF HERE, BILLIONAIRE!”
Whenever I write something good I’m like hell yeah I’m fooling them, fooling every single last one of them, all of them, all three of them.
March 11, 2025 at 7:51 PM
Whenever I write something good I’m like hell yeah I’m fooling them, fooling every single last one of them, all of them, all three of them.
If I was a song writer all my songs would have three to four minutes of “hey hey hey hey” or “wooo wooo wooo wooo” or “nah na nah naaaaa!” and they’d all be hits because of that
March 11, 2025 at 1:16 PM
If I was a song writer all my songs would have three to four minutes of “hey hey hey hey” or “wooo wooo wooo wooo” or “nah na nah naaaaa!” and they’d all be hits because of that
Solidarity to all you fellow degenerates who use the cup holder in your vehicle as a mini trash can
March 10, 2025 at 1:19 PM
Solidarity to all you fellow degenerates who use the cup holder in your vehicle as a mini trash can
Jason Isbell please work with Dave Cobb again lol
March 9, 2025 at 2:55 PM
Jason Isbell please work with Dave Cobb again lol
Not to ruin your day but the fake babies born at the end of Father of the Bride Part II would turn 30 this year.
March 9, 2025 at 2:53 PM
Not to ruin your day but the fake babies born at the end of Father of the Bride Part II would turn 30 this year.
Awww babe don’t worry, when you get a rejection from an agent they’re not rejecting you as a writer they’re just rejecting the thing that you spent half a decade writing that encapsulates your intellect, emotional IQ, artistic passion, and overall aesthetic.
March 3, 2025 at 8:22 PM
Awww babe don’t worry, when you get a rejection from an agent they’re not rejecting you as a writer they’re just rejecting the thing that you spent half a decade writing that encapsulates your intellect, emotional IQ, artistic passion, and overall aesthetic.