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Richard Mirabella 🎃

@rpmirabella.bsky.social

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Writer, reader, office potato. I'm queer. Author of Brother & Sister Enter the Forest. Lambda Award Finalist. NY Times Editors' Choice. Real human. No, really. richardmirabellawriter.com

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Richard Mirabella 🎃 @rpmirabella.bsky.social · Mar 14

Two years, two editions of Brother & Sister Enter the Forest. Thanks to everyone who supported this book over the past two years.

Me sitting in my orange rocker. I'm wearing a tank top and jeans. I'm holding hardcover and paperback editions of my novel.

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Amber Sparks @ambersparks.bsky.social · 16h

My book comes out today! It’s sad and funny and a little spooky and a lot mysterious and very weird, and you can buy it wherever fine books are sold in indie stores bookshop.org/p/books/happ...

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K. Winkler @bleakhousing.bsky.social · 17h

The Credible Hulk
The Competent Spider-Man
50th percentile X-Men
Lieutenant America
The Compromisers
Bummer Patrol
The Believable Four

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Richard Mirabella 🎃 @rpmirabella.bsky.social · 17h

It's that people don't think of trying again. They have an idea of what books are like. They don't know how weird and fun and bonkers some fiction is.

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Richard Mirabella 🎃 @rpmirabella.bsky.social · 17h

2. At work the other day, a colleague was saying that he hasn't read fiction since high school, and it was due to being turned off by the dull books he was made to read then. I told him "You just have to read one book that hooks you and then you'll be addicted."

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Richard Mirabella 🎃 @rpmirabella.bsky.social · 17h

1. I feel bad for people who don't read. I can't imagine not experiencing Toni Morison, Dan Chaon, James Purdy, Ishiguro, Joy Williams, Kyle Winkler, Zora Hurston! Like ...

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Richard Mirabella 🎃 @rpmirabella.bsky.social · 1d

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Richard Mirabella 🎃 @rpmirabella.bsky.social · 3d

I'm so sick of hearing about AI. I'm sick of the dumb videos, sick of the people who make excuses like "I'm basic and have no talent! Why shouldn't I be able to make stupid crap with a ten second life-span?" I need a break.

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Richard Mirabella 🎃 @rpmirabella.bsky.social · 3d

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Her interesting visual style can be seen in her video for Belinda Carlisle's Heaven is a Place on Earth.

Belinda Carlisle - Heaven Is A Place On Earth (Official Music Video)

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Richard Mirabella 🎃 @rpmirabella.bsky.social · 3d

Diane Keaton should have lived much longer. She would be in her 90s, chic and silly. She'd grace late night TV now and then and say outrageous things to shock the squares. She was our queen of quirk, yes, but also an actor of tremendous fragility and charm.

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Richard Mirabella 🎃 @rpmirabella.bsky.social · 3d

This one is hard

Richard Mirabella 🎃 @rpmirabella.bsky.social · 3d

What? No. No!

Richard Mirabella 🎃 @rpmirabella.bsky.social · 3d

Sumac is a gift so many ignore!

Richard Mirabella 🎃 @rpmirabella.bsky.social · 3d

Honestly same.

Richard Mirabella 🎃 @rpmirabella.bsky.social · 3d

I block out every year that weekends in Upstate NY are insane. My quiet little town square is full of people. I don't like it, but also I don't blame them! It IS beautiful here.

Richard Mirabella 🎃 @rpmirabella.bsky.social · 4d

Here for this

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Richard Mirabella 🎃 @rpmirabella.bsky.social · Sep 28

A thread of my Autumn omens:
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Angry honeybees asking for cola.
Apples with one bite taken out, left in the gutter by toddlers.
A puddle of soft serve with leaves stuck in it.
The King of Mushrooms eating a tree.

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Richard Mirabella 🎃 @rpmirabella.bsky.social · 5d

Haha I love you

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Richard Mirabella 🎃 @rpmirabella.bsky.social · 5d

Autumn Omens 6 (2025)
Is it a crushed skunk or is it weed?
6 PM is midnight.
The toad cotillion is held.
Apples are the heart.
Pumpkins are the head.
The garden is neglected.
Cemeteries are "the park"
Bees asleep under the golden rod blossoms.

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Richard Mirabella 🎃 @rpmirabella.bsky.social · 5d

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Richard Mirabella 🎃 @rpmirabella.bsky.social · 5d

Drop some SPIRITS 👻🖤🍸

Richard Mirabella 🎃 @rpmirabella.bsky.social · 6d

Revising a novel by Richard Mirabella.
Add 20k words, and then cut most of them.

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Michael Jay McClure @mjmimages.bsky.social · 6d

Is it my turn to pick out the canapés for this week’s Antifa meeting? Did people like that asparagus thing I brought last time?

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Richard Mirabella 🎃 @rpmirabella.bsky.social · 7d

A forced smile when you're a Capricorn feels like serious work.

Richard Mirabella 🎃 @rpmirabella.bsky.social · 8d

Fans literally squirting over new Lezza pics!

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Amber Sparks @ambersparks.bsky.social · 9d

What’s absolutely terrifying about what’s happening right now, and is always true at the beginning of fascist regime: ICE has always been awful, but now they’re so abhorrent that *only* evil people want to be ICE agents, it’s a Brownshirts spiral of who wants to zip tie a baby

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