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Amazon.com: Snow Babies eBook : Beyer, Michael, Cornwell, Jessie: Kindle Store

Michael Beyer @mick4ey5.bsky.social · 1d

My best novel is still only $0.99 as an e-book. A terrible blizzard in a small town, runaway orphans, snow ghosts, and a comedy about people who may freeze to death.
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Snow Babies

Amazon.com: A Field Guide to Fauns eBook : Beyer, Michael: Kindle Store

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Michael Beyer @mick4ey5.bsky.social · 1d

My most popular book is currently the story of a boy learning to live as a nudist and face the naked truth about his life.
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A Field Guide to Fauns

The Necromancer's Apprentice

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Hawkeye8 @hawkeye8.bsky.social · 1d

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Michael Beyer @mick4ey5.bsky.social · 2d

This fairytale is a satire and illustrated story of naturally naked fairies, the return of an evil grade-school chum, and the misuse of magic. If you don't hate it, you will love it.
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The Necromancer's Apprentice - Kindle edition by Beyer, Michael. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading The Necromancer's Apprentice.

A boy who loves late-night monster movies begins to hear a wolf howling at the moon while watching Lon Chaney on the creature feature. A real wolf? Or something more sinister? And when people start dy...

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Michael Beyer @mick4ey5.bsky.social · 2d

My werewolf story may or may not have a real werewolf in it, but it definitely has humor, nudists, Pirates, and actual wolves.
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The Baby Werewolf

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Michael Beyer @mick4ey5.bsky.social · 2d

Wielding the Big Pencil

The guy holding the big pencil used to be me. I know you are thinking, “But, Mickey, you are not a rabbit!” Well, that’s true, but it is also true that the whole…

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Michael Beyer @mick4ey5.bsky.social · 4d

Spastic Enjoyment of Conspiracy-Theorist Treasure

So, I understand that the JFK documents are now released to the public. Old George HW Bush stipulated the date in 1992, 25 years ago. So I should be thrilled, right? Here is Politico’s arti…

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Michael Beyer @mick4ey5.bsky.social · 8d

Coming Home Again

Well, my wife dropped me off at the family farm in Iowa, the Beyer farm, the Aldrich farm (my grandparents), for a hundred years before that. Then she went back to the house in Carrollton because s…

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Michael Beyer @mick4ey5.bsky.social · 9d

Confessions on the Prairie

Some songs are so beautiful and so true, that I cannot listen without tears in my eyes and burning fire in my heart. “I did my best, it wasn’t much I couldn’t feel, so I tried to …

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Michael Beyer @mick4ey5.bsky.social · 10d

The Silent Sonata

Being a writer is a life of music that happens only in your head. You hear voices constantly. They pulse rhythmically with insights and ideas that have to be written down and remembered. Otherwi…

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Michael Beyer @mick4ey5.bsky.social · 12d

Tom Sawyer Abroad (Book Review)

Believe it or not, I read this entire 100+-year-old book in my car while waiting for my daughter and my son in school parking lots. What a perfectly ironic way to read a soaring imaginary adventur…

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Michael Beyer @mick4ey5.bsky.social · 13d

How Learning Takes Place

So many people in this society seem to think they know better how to do what a teacher is supposed to do than those people they actually pay tiny amounts of money to for doing decades worth of the …

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Michael Beyer @mick4ey5.bsky.social · 16d

The Same Old New Day

Today is… a new day. an opportunity. a day to celebrate. But Last Night was… a horror show. proof our Prexydent is a monster. reason to be afraid of the future. So, what do we do? I wis…

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Michael Beyer @mick4ey5.bsky.social · 18d

Over the Rainbow

Here is a notion that I find disturbing, compelling, and totally fascinating. The world portrayed to us through history, current media, and what is assumed to be common knowledge of the facts…

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Michael Beyer @mick4ey5.bsky.social · 19d

How the Story Ends

How the Story Ends (a poem of sour grapes) This is how the story ends… When fox plus grapes make themes. It tells you all the grapes are sour… So give up on your dreams. But that…

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Michael Beyer @mick4ey5.bsky.social · 25d

How To Avoid Dropping Dead Like a Dunderhead

This post originally appeared here on April 21st, 2015, the anniversary of Mark Twain’s expiration date. If it is inevitable that I will surely drop dead some day, and if it is likely that …

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Michael Beyer @mick4ey5.bsky.social · 26d

Telling Teacher Stories

Here’s a secret that is only a secret if you are one of the well-over-six-billion people that don’t know I exist; I loved being a public school teacher. I taught for 31 years. 24 year…

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Ram Gulrajani Author 📚 @rockape65.bsky.social · Jun 14

Melvin is very different to his friends & family, he is a hairy frog. An illustrated book for young readers which celebrates being different & how we all have a purpose and belong encouraging inclusion and friendship. www.amazon.com/Melvin-Hairy... / @booksstlouis.bsky.social @iquitcigs.bsky.social

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Michael Beyer @mick4ey5.bsky.social · 27d

My werewolf story may or may not have a real werewolf in it, but it definitely has humor, nudists, Pirates, and actual wolves in it.

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The Baby Werewolf

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Michael Beyer @mick4ey5.bsky.social · 28d

Character References, Part 3

When choosing whose picture to publish of all the many made-up people that live in my head and my fiction, I often wonder, do I have an accurate sense of who is important and who is merely minor?&n…

Recipes for Gingerbread Children

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Michael Beyer @mick4ey5.bsky.social · Sep 13

This tale of fairies, nudists, and remembered Nazis is one of my best works, and it is once again my most popular book on Amazon
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Recipes for Gingerbread Children - Kindle edition by Beyer, Michael. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading Recipes for Gingerbread Children.

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Michael Beyer @mick4ey5.bsky.social · Sep 13

People Art

All art on this planet (with the possible exceptions of paintings by monkeys and elephants, and the songs of whales and dolphins) is about people. What is art, if it is not a reflection of who and …

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Michael Beyer @mick4ey5.bsky.social · Sep 12

Perilous Poo Problems

Tuesday, in the early morning, I was back in an emergency room bed for what I feared might be heart pain. It was bad enough to force me to spend more money on the ER, even though I had doubts about…