Michael Tichy
@emptywrites.bsky.social
He/Him. Author of ambivalent realism and other variations of sadness. Wound of the West out now from Castaigne Publishing. https://castaignepublishing.bigcartel.com/product/wound-of-the-west
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Michael Tichy
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· Jun 20
IN THE EYES OF THE HUNGRY
IN THE EYES OF THE HUNGRY is a horror anthology inspired by the works of John Steinbeck. Featuring David Simmons, Brendan Vidito, plus more. Edited...
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It’s here. Available on Castaigne and the other place. 9 horror stories in the footsteps of Steinbeck. Read it, sit with it, share it with a friend.
In the Eyes of the Hungry
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In the Eyes of the Hungry
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Michael Boulerice called it "absolutely fuckin bonkers, bro."
For real this easily lands in the top three books I've read over the last ten years. Get it by any means necessary
For real this easily lands in the top three books I've read over the last ten years. Get it by any means necessary
The Night Ship is fishing up some happy netgalley reviews. Someone called it fun, and Publisher's Weekly called it an "unsettling and immersive sci-fi thriller", and that is everything I wanted.
It's still on the 'galley, but if that's not your jam let me know!
www.netgalley.co.uk/catalog/book...
It's still on the 'galley, but if that's not your jam let me know!
www.netgalley.co.uk/catalog/book...
The Night Ship
NetGalley helps publishers and authors promote digital review copies to book advocates and industry professionals. Publishers make digital review copies and audiobooks available for the NetGalley comm...
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November 25, 2025 at 2:15 PM
Michael Boulerice called it "absolutely fuckin bonkers, bro."
For real this easily lands in the top three books I've read over the last ten years. Get it by any means necessary
For real this easily lands in the top three books I've read over the last ten years. Get it by any means necessary
My last full day of work this week and i guess i must be excited because Ive been awake since 2am. Gonna crawl across that finish line.
Also, Welcome to Derry sets a bar for dumbest king adaptation and then every week manages to raise that bar higher. And yet i cannot look away.
Also, Welcome to Derry sets a bar for dumbest king adaptation and then every week manages to raise that bar higher. And yet i cannot look away.
November 25, 2025 at 11:18 AM
My last full day of work this week and i guess i must be excited because Ive been awake since 2am. Gonna crawl across that finish line.
Also, Welcome to Derry sets a bar for dumbest king adaptation and then every week manages to raise that bar higher. And yet i cannot look away.
Also, Welcome to Derry sets a bar for dumbest king adaptation and then every week manages to raise that bar higher. And yet i cannot look away.
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The Night Ship is fishing up some happy netgalley reviews. Someone called it fun, and Publisher's Weekly called it an "unsettling and immersive sci-fi thriller", and that is everything I wanted.
It's still on the 'galley, but if that's not your jam let me know!
www.netgalley.co.uk/catalog/book...
It's still on the 'galley, but if that's not your jam let me know!
www.netgalley.co.uk/catalog/book...
The Night Ship
NetGalley helps publishers and authors promote digital review copies to book advocates and industry professionals. Publishers make digital review copies and audiobooks available for the NetGalley comm...
www.netgalley.co.uk
November 24, 2025 at 11:09 PM
The Night Ship is fishing up some happy netgalley reviews. Someone called it fun, and Publisher's Weekly called it an "unsettling and immersive sci-fi thriller", and that is everything I wanted.
It's still on the 'galley, but if that's not your jam let me know!
www.netgalley.co.uk/catalog/book...
It's still on the 'galley, but if that's not your jam let me know!
www.netgalley.co.uk/catalog/book...
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Home Alone makes changes to the Die Hard formula that render it hard for me to enjoy. The McClain character should feel overawed. And in theory having Kevin be a child versus adults achieves that. But the thing is: Kevin is a god. It's not just Tom & Jerry. This is some random punks versus Anansi.
November 23, 2025 at 9:09 AM
Home Alone makes changes to the Die Hard formula that render it hard for me to enjoy. The McClain character should feel overawed. And in theory having Kevin be a child versus adults achieves that. But the thing is: Kevin is a god. It's not just Tom & Jerry. This is some random punks versus Anansi.
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Playbook | While Marjorie Taylor Greene was celebrated in Washington for forswearing toxic politics, her internal polling showed she'd have to go back to harassing school shooting survivors if she wanted to win another Republican primary.
November 22, 2025 at 3:26 PM
Playbook | While Marjorie Taylor Greene was celebrated in Washington for forswearing toxic politics, her internal polling showed she'd have to go back to harassing school shooting survivors if she wanted to win another Republican primary.
It’s chilly but I’m out here
Kb complex
Halos, skullcrushers, around the world, figure 8, h2h swings, high pulls
8-10 each side
Rd 1 24lb
Rd 2-5 35lb
The hardest thing about these kettle bell complexes vs my usual circuit is just never setting down the weight
Kb complex
Halos, skullcrushers, around the world, figure 8, h2h swings, high pulls
8-10 each side
Rd 1 24lb
Rd 2-5 35lb
The hardest thing about these kettle bell complexes vs my usual circuit is just never setting down the weight
November 22, 2025 at 2:28 PM
It’s chilly but I’m out here
Kb complex
Halos, skullcrushers, around the world, figure 8, h2h swings, high pulls
8-10 each side
Rd 1 24lb
Rd 2-5 35lb
The hardest thing about these kettle bell complexes vs my usual circuit is just never setting down the weight
Kb complex
Halos, skullcrushers, around the world, figure 8, h2h swings, high pulls
8-10 each side
Rd 1 24lb
Rd 2-5 35lb
The hardest thing about these kettle bell complexes vs my usual circuit is just never setting down the weight
This MTG heel turn thing has me torn between the idea that all the liberals slobbering at the redemption arc are bots and right wing ops and the idea that a lot of liberals are just that stupid and as much as I would prefer the former, evidence strongly leans toward the latter.
November 22, 2025 at 11:38 AM
This MTG heel turn thing has me torn between the idea that all the liberals slobbering at the redemption arc are bots and right wing ops and the idea that a lot of liberals are just that stupid and as much as I would prefer the former, evidence strongly leans toward the latter.
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It is time, now and always, to say the things that need saying and make the art that needs making
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YOUR BODY IS A FEVER DREAM: A Cosmic Body Horror Anthology from Trans & Gender Nonconforming Voices
A Charity collection coming in October 2026🖤☠️🏳️⚧️
Art by @mxmorgan.com
All the info here: tenebrouspress.com/blog/2025/11...
YOUR BODY IS A FEVER DREAM: A Cosmic Body Horror Anthology from Trans & Gender Nonconforming Voices
A Charity collection coming in October 2026🖤☠️🏳️⚧️
Art by @mxmorgan.com
All the info here: tenebrouspress.com/blog/2025/11...
November 20, 2025 at 3:31 PM
It is time, now and always, to say the things that need saying and make the art that needs making
Im hoping more people are waking up to the fact that for decades we’ve been held hostage by crybaby liberals who are willing to sacrifice anyone to preserve their comfort and will elect trash as long as the trash does enough performative pillow talk that they can believe they’re fundamentally good
If you'd rather bigots hold trans people's lives hostage instead of trans people hold the comfort of bigots hostage, well OK, that's your calculus, you get to make your choices in democracy—but own your choice. Admit it. Stand on your business. Go curry the favor of bigots and own the results.
November 20, 2025 at 1:20 PM
Im hoping more people are waking up to the fact that for decades we’ve been held hostage by crybaby liberals who are willing to sacrifice anyone to preserve their comfort and will elect trash as long as the trash does enough performative pillow talk that they can believe they’re fundamentally good
As an NP, i wonder to what extent this is part of the larger war on university education because throttling loan availability is going to push more people away from brick and mortar graduate programs into online for profit schools.
The Department of Education is proposing a definition that could strip nurse practitioners and CRNAs of “professional degree” status.
Chiropractors keep it. Nurses risk losing it. And that change would fall hardest on women in healthcare.
This is political and it is sexist.
Chiropractors keep it. Nurses risk losing it. And that change would fall hardest on women in healthcare.
This is political and it is sexist.
November 20, 2025 at 1:08 PM
As an NP, i wonder to what extent this is part of the larger war on university education because throttling loan availability is going to push more people away from brick and mortar graduate programs into online for profit schools.
If you have astigmatism, driving at night is truly an adrenaline sport these days
It is genuinely insane how bright and distracting car lights are now
I wish we, like, regulated shit nowadays. Between car bloat, blinding headlines, and neighbourhoods packed with rental suites but no on-property parking, driving is an absolute nightmare now.
November 19, 2025 at 10:59 AM
If you have astigmatism, driving at night is truly an adrenaline sport these days
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In lieu of a complex graphic assaulting your eyeballs with all 18 stories I've had published this year, please consider this one if you're reading for awards: "The Power Company Detective," eligible in the short story category. Weird horror with no easy answers.
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“The Power Company Detective” by Joe Koch - Seize The Press
The gun doesn’t remember you. The man you were was not important, nothing more than another in a series of shifting targets for the shouting hole of its small black mouth. Furthermore, you may have be...
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November 13, 2025 at 4:42 PM
In lieu of a complex graphic assaulting your eyeballs with all 18 stories I've had published this year, please consider this one if you're reading for awards: "The Power Company Detective," eligible in the short story category. Weird horror with no easy answers.
18.168.63.88/2025/03/29/t...
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Im really enjoying the lowdown but just once I’d like a series to attempt to accurately portray the effects of sustaining multiple significant concussions over the course of like a week
November 14, 2025 at 11:08 PM
Im really enjoying the lowdown but just once I’d like a series to attempt to accurately portray the effects of sustaining multiple significant concussions over the course of like a week
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"We looked into the public awareness of this story we're actively suppressing and the data suggests we're suppressing it."
November 14, 2025 at 10:27 AM
"We looked into the public awareness of this story we're actively suppressing and the data suggests we're suppressing it."
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PERFECTLY SAID THANK YOU
More often than not, at its core, horror to the wealthy is loss of status whereas horror to the non wealthy is more visceral and existential. I’m generally uninterested in narratives that center affluent people, period.
November 12, 2025 at 11:09 AM
PERFECTLY SAID THANK YOU
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oh so these people do pay attention to who politicians follow on social media, they just don’t care that the vice president follows a bunch of actual neo-nazis
Axios tried to bust James Talarico for following adult content creators on Instagram and I'm genuinely impressed by his campaign's response
November 8, 2025 at 4:39 PM
oh so these people do pay attention to who politicians follow on social media, they just don’t care that the vice president follows a bunch of actual neo-nazis
Waiting to see who in the media will clearly state that Trump and Johnson have been lying for weeks saying these funds don’t exist
BREAKING: A federal judge finds the Trump administration "did not comply" with his order.
A hearing has begun over the enforcement of a federal judge's order to fund SNAP benefits through November.
Plaintiffs say Trump is holding "full SNAP benefits hostage for political leverage during the shutdown."
Coverage ahead
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Plaintiffs say Trump is holding "full SNAP benefits hostage for political leverage during the shutdown."
Coverage ahead
www.allrisenews.com/p/snap-judgm...
November 6, 2025 at 10:28 PM
Waiting to see who in the media will clearly state that Trump and Johnson have been lying for weeks saying these funds don’t exist
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Here's the rest of it if you don't want to click the link, and I'll post a link of a reading.
November 5, 2025 at 5:12 AM
Here's the rest of it if you don't want to click the link, and I'll post a link of a reading.
I’m on this weird dive about the doldrums lately and finished The Shadow-Line by Joseph Conrad this morning which is autobiographical about Conrad’s early life working as a sailor. The middle section is especially good depicting the creeping madness of being stranded helplessly on becalmed seas
November 5, 2025 at 11:54 AM
I’m on this weird dive about the doldrums lately and finished The Shadow-Line by Joseph Conrad this morning which is autobiographical about Conrad’s early life working as a sailor. The middle section is especially good depicting the creeping madness of being stranded helplessly on becalmed seas
The latest hellhouse LLC - lineage is without question the worst in the series. On top of being terrible, it’s incomplete, basically ending suddenly on a revelation that will be the subject of the next installment, a movie that, if there’s any reason left in the world, will never be made
November 2, 2025 at 10:21 AM
The latest hellhouse LLC - lineage is without question the worst in the series. On top of being terrible, it’s incomplete, basically ending suddenly on a revelation that will be the subject of the next installment, a movie that, if there’s any reason left in the world, will never be made
I’ll be the first to say it. Welcome to Derry is going in a really stupid direction. But I’ll stick around because I have to see how it plays out.
November 1, 2025 at 1:07 AM
I’ll be the first to say it. Welcome to Derry is going in a really stupid direction. But I’ll stick around because I have to see how it plays out.
Happy Halloween!
October 31, 2025 at 3:05 PM
Happy Halloween!
1/ Thinking about my vampire book, now in that ether between completion and a contract, i have the breathing room for the abstract stuff. Bataille says existence is a discontinuity, being a separate living thing. Vampires are a paradox because death is the promise of a return to continuity but their
October 31, 2025 at 12:44 PM
1/ Thinking about my vampire book, now in that ether between completion and a contract, i have the breathing room for the abstract stuff. Bataille says existence is a discontinuity, being a separate living thing. Vampires are a paradox because death is the promise of a return to continuity but their
The weirdest part to me is how the people obsessed with living forever don’t really enjoy living now. They’re the same ones who read chatgpt summaries of books and look down on people who prioritize leisure. So it’s like they want to create a literal hell to exist for eternity on the permagrind.
I hate that I've now learned a new thing our tech overlords have bestowed on incredibly dumb people to toss into the discourse but here's some funny tweets about it
October 30, 2025 at 7:39 PM
The weirdest part to me is how the people obsessed with living forever don’t really enjoy living now. They’re the same ones who read chatgpt summaries of books and look down on people who prioritize leisure. So it’s like they want to create a literal hell to exist for eternity on the permagrind.