Michael G. O'Connell
@mocando.bsky.social
Author/Illustrator from the Sunshine State. 🖤👻
Southern Gothic/Horror
Now available chapbooks & other goodies. https://linktr.ee/mocando
In Tales to Terrify, Dracula Beyond Stoker, WAS, Raven Review, Mystery Trib. & more
🚫DMs unless you already know me.
Southern Gothic/Horror
Now available chapbooks & other goodies. https://linktr.ee/mocando
In Tales to Terrify, Dracula Beyond Stoker, WAS, Raven Review, Mystery Trib. & more
🚫DMs unless you already know me.
Pinned
I don’t mean to be rude, but I’m probably no longer going to respond to DMs that ask me how I’m doing, or even just a friendly “hi”. I now understand all the “No DMs” in people’s profiles. So, here’s my standard reply:
“Hi! Thanks for the follow. I’m well. Hope you have a nice day.”
“Hi! Thanks for the follow. I’m well. Hope you have a nice day.”
🤣
November 26, 2025 at 5:33 PM
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dogyard mag is #openforsubmissions!
Submit your #poetry, #art, #cnf, #fiction, and anything else. Trust me, I want to read some weird stuff this week!!
#writingcommunity #writersofbsky #dogyard
Submit your #poetry, #art, #cnf, #fiction, and anything else. Trust me, I want to read some weird stuff this week!!
#writingcommunity #writersofbsky #dogyard
November 14, 2025 at 6:40 PM
dogyard mag is #openforsubmissions!
Submit your #poetry, #art, #cnf, #fiction, and anything else. Trust me, I want to read some weird stuff this week!!
#writingcommunity #writersofbsky #dogyard
Submit your #poetry, #art, #cnf, #fiction, and anything else. Trust me, I want to read some weird stuff this week!!
#writingcommunity #writersofbsky #dogyard
Like vampire stories?
The Old West?
Originality that bleeds off the page?
Give this one a read. mocando.blogspot.com/2025/03/some...
The Old West?
Originality that bleeds off the page?
Give this one a read. mocando.blogspot.com/2025/03/some...
November 26, 2025 at 5:22 PM
Like vampire stories?
The Old West?
Originality that bleeds off the page?
Give this one a read. mocando.blogspot.com/2025/03/some...
The Old West?
Originality that bleeds off the page?
Give this one a read. mocando.blogspot.com/2025/03/some...
Reposted by Michael G. O'Connell
November 26, 2025 at 5:15 PM
With America on My Last Fucking Nerve, I, Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, Dissent www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/wit...
With America on My Last Fucking Nerve, I, Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, Dissent
You know me as the first Black woman to serve on the Supreme Court. Over the past three years, I’ve tried changing the system from within. I’ve wri...
www.mcsweeneys.net
November 25, 2025 at 7:02 PM
With America on My Last Fucking Nerve, I, Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, Dissent www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/wit...
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POTUS demanded illegal investigation to this case which means he FALSELY accused a US citizen of crimes they never committed.
Why is Hakeem Jeffries and Chuck Schumer NOT demanding immediate resignation?
JD Vance IS NOT a threat to 2026!
Christian Evangelicals should publicly rebuke MAGA
Why is Hakeem Jeffries and Chuck Schumer NOT demanding immediate resignation?
JD Vance IS NOT a threat to 2026!
Christian Evangelicals should publicly rebuke MAGA
November 24, 2025 at 5:56 PM
POTUS demanded illegal investigation to this case which means he FALSELY accused a US citizen of crimes they never committed.
Why is Hakeem Jeffries and Chuck Schumer NOT demanding immediate resignation?
JD Vance IS NOT a threat to 2026!
Christian Evangelicals should publicly rebuke MAGA
Why is Hakeem Jeffries and Chuck Schumer NOT demanding immediate resignation?
JD Vance IS NOT a threat to 2026!
Christian Evangelicals should publicly rebuke MAGA
Help a brother out and give @armandauthor.bsky.social a follow on YouTube. He's needing about 250 more subscribers. You can do it, Bluesky!! www.youtube.com/live/Wr00VWy...
Writing On Twitch AND YouTube Live - Maybe!
YouTube video by Armand's Opinion
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November 24, 2025 at 6:21 PM
Help a brother out and give @armandauthor.bsky.social a follow on YouTube. He's needing about 250 more subscribers. You can do it, Bluesky!! www.youtube.com/live/Wr00VWy...
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🌟 DreamForge is now open for Winter 2025 submissions!
They want optimistic sci-fi & fantasy that celebrates connection, hope, and the human spirita about “Open Channel: The Art of Connection”
Pays $0.08/word Due: Dec 31, 2025.
Submit: horrortree.com/taking-submi...
@dreamforgemagazine.bsky.social
They want optimistic sci-fi & fantasy that celebrates connection, hope, and the human spirita about “Open Channel: The Art of Connection”
Pays $0.08/word Due: Dec 31, 2025.
Submit: horrortree.com/taking-submi...
@dreamforgemagazine.bsky.social
November 24, 2025 at 4:30 PM
🌟 DreamForge is now open for Winter 2025 submissions!
They want optimistic sci-fi & fantasy that celebrates connection, hope, and the human spirita about “Open Channel: The Art of Connection”
Pays $0.08/word Due: Dec 31, 2025.
Submit: horrortree.com/taking-submi...
@dreamforgemagazine.bsky.social
They want optimistic sci-fi & fantasy that celebrates connection, hope, and the human spirita about “Open Channel: The Art of Connection”
Pays $0.08/word Due: Dec 31, 2025.
Submit: horrortree.com/taking-submi...
@dreamforgemagazine.bsky.social
Does anyone have any inside scoop on whether Amazon is going to make further cuts in prices (especially to MacBooks) over the coming weekend? I REALLY want to honor the boycott/blackout but I'm on a fixed budget and I will make this one exception if it happens. www.pcmag.com/news/best-am...
Amazon Black Friday Week Deals Are Here and Apple MacBooks, Beats Headphones, and Ring Security Cameras Are All on Sale
Amazon's early Black Friday deals for November 2025 already feature 43% off Bose QuietComfort headphones, 40% off a Fitbit Versa 4, and even more savings and discounts on top tech.
www.pcmag.com
November 24, 2025 at 4:41 PM
Does anyone have any inside scoop on whether Amazon is going to make further cuts in prices (especially to MacBooks) over the coming weekend? I REALLY want to honor the boycott/blackout but I'm on a fixed budget and I will make this one exception if it happens. www.pcmag.com/news/best-am...
I love that there will be an alternative to Starlink—for obvious reasons—but I am not happy that there will be hundreds of new satellites up there. Are there going to be satellites for every competitor?
www.pcmag.com/news/amazons...
www.pcmag.com/news/amazons...
Amazon's Starlink Rival Preps Wi-Fi Router
FCC documents show that the Amazon Leo router supports Wi-Fi 6 and includes a 'mesh mode.'
www.pcmag.com
November 24, 2025 at 4:37 PM
I love that there will be an alternative to Starlink—for obvious reasons—but I am not happy that there will be hundreds of new satellites up there. Are there going to be satellites for every competitor?
www.pcmag.com/news/amazons...
www.pcmag.com/news/amazons...
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Here's my award eligibility post(s) for 2025:
May: "Data Ghost" in Storyteller: A Tanith Lee Tribute Anthology, Editors Julie C. Day, Carina Bissett & Craig Laurance Gidney
It's also online at Pseudopod #995, Narrator Rae Lundberg
pseudopod.org/2025/09/26/p...
1/?
May: "Data Ghost" in Storyteller: A Tanith Lee Tribute Anthology, Editors Julie C. Day, Carina Bissett & Craig Laurance Gidney
It's also online at Pseudopod #995, Narrator Rae Lundberg
pseudopod.org/2025/09/26/p...
1/?
PseudoPod 995: Data Ghost
When the station stats popped up on the screen, the Interface said, Anomalous. Deni batted at their ear and muttered, “No, no, quit it.” In the second cockpit seat, Winnie threw them a look. “What?”…
pseudopod.org
November 24, 2025 at 2:37 PM
Here's my award eligibility post(s) for 2025:
May: "Data Ghost" in Storyteller: A Tanith Lee Tribute Anthology, Editors Julie C. Day, Carina Bissett & Craig Laurance Gidney
It's also online at Pseudopod #995, Narrator Rae Lundberg
pseudopod.org/2025/09/26/p...
1/?
May: "Data Ghost" in Storyteller: A Tanith Lee Tribute Anthology, Editors Julie C. Day, Carina Bissett & Craig Laurance Gidney
It's also online at Pseudopod #995, Narrator Rae Lundberg
pseudopod.org/2025/09/26/p...
1/?
flit [sparrow] poets.org/poem/flit-sp...
flit [sparrow]
a ghost garden last year’s still blooms / on the patio an undying marigold
poets.org
November 21, 2025 at 8:00 PM
flit [sparrow] poets.org/poem/flit-sp...
A brilliant read from John Hendrix on LitHub.
lithub.com/the-fire-wit...
lithub.com/the-fire-wit...
The Fire Within: On the Graphic Adaptation of Cormac McCarthy’s The Road
“A 1-megaton thermonuclear weapon detonation begins with a flash of light and heat so tremendous it is impossible for the human mind to comprehend. One hundred and eight million degrees Fahrenheit …
lithub.com
November 20, 2025 at 5:22 PM
A brilliant read from John Hendrix on LitHub.
lithub.com/the-fire-wit...
lithub.com/the-fire-wit...
Former U.S. Poet Laureate Billy Collins discusses his latest collection of poems, Dog Show, alongside @LEGroff.bsky.social. Dec. 12. Doors at 5:30pm; the event is ticketed. This event is at the Heartwood Soundstage indoor hall, located just steps away from The Lynx.
thelynxbooks.com/events/38224...
thelynxbooks.com/events/38224...
FIRST EDITIONS CLUB: BILLY COLLINS WITH DOG SHOW | The Lynx Books
Gainesville's local independent bookstore
thelynxbooks.com
November 20, 2025 at 4:44 PM
Former U.S. Poet Laureate Billy Collins discusses his latest collection of poems, Dog Show, alongside @LEGroff.bsky.social. Dec. 12. Doors at 5:30pm; the event is ticketed. This event is at the Heartwood Soundstage indoor hall, located just steps away from The Lynx.
thelynxbooks.com/events/38224...
thelynxbooks.com/events/38224...
Get Book 1 in the Low Tide trilogy from Armand Rosamilia and Tom Duffy It's FREE.
This was only supposed to be a one day deal, and I thought I missed it, but it's still up and it's still free to download to your Kindle. www.amazon.com/Tide-Rick-Jo...
This was only supposed to be a one day deal, and I thought I missed it, but it's still up and it's still free to download to your Kindle. www.amazon.com/Tide-Rick-Jo...
Low Tide (Rick And JoJo Treasure Hunt Book 1)
Low Tide (Rick And JoJo Treasure Hunt Book 1) - Kindle edition by Rosamilia, Armand, Duffy, Tom. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading Low Tide (Rick And JoJo Treasure Hunt Book 1).
www.amazon.com
November 16, 2025 at 2:34 PM
Get Book 1 in the Low Tide trilogy from Armand Rosamilia and Tom Duffy It's FREE.
This was only supposed to be a one day deal, and I thought I missed it, but it's still up and it's still free to download to your Kindle. www.amazon.com/Tide-Rick-Jo...
This was only supposed to be a one day deal, and I thought I missed it, but it's still up and it's still free to download to your Kindle. www.amazon.com/Tide-Rick-Jo...
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You kind of officially have like 1.5 hours to get your micro in. The Mikey awards at least $2500 in prize money to great work under 250 words. www.smokelong.com/the-smokelon...
The SmokeLong Grand Micro Contest 2025 - SmokeLong Quarterly
The SmokeLong Grand Micro Contest (The Mikey) is now an annual competition celebrating and compensating the best micro fiction and nonfiction online. The grand prize winner of The Mikey is automatical...
www.smokelong.com
November 16, 2025 at 3:29 AM
You kind of officially have like 1.5 hours to get your micro in. The Mikey awards at least $2500 in prize money to great work under 250 words. www.smokelong.com/the-smokelon...
According to a medieval Irish legal text on cats called Catslechtae (Cat-Sections), if a cat is able to purr and to catch mice, it’s worth three cows and if it’s only able to purr, it’s worth one cow and a half.
November 3, 2025 at 12:03 PM
I can't imagine what it's like, but I try. And that's what makes me a decent human.
Here in “Intransigence,” Eric Bliman explores a sensitive and controversial topic. conta.cc/4qFzbBA
Me? I got rid of my HP books. Maybe I should've burned them…
Here in “Intransigence,” Eric Bliman explores a sensitive and controversial topic. conta.cc/4qFzbBA
Me? I got rid of my HP books. Maybe I should've burned them…
“Intransigence” by Eric Bliman
Email from Rattle Magazine But, now, she says we’re all just passing through some fad that time will teach us to outgrow … November 2, 2025 Eric Bliman Intransigence “Time will tell whether I’ve got
conta.cc
November 3, 2025 at 11:59 AM
I can't imagine what it's like, but I try. And that's what makes me a decent human.
Here in “Intransigence,” Eric Bliman explores a sensitive and controversial topic. conta.cc/4qFzbBA
Me? I got rid of my HP books. Maybe I should've burned them…
Here in “Intransigence,” Eric Bliman explores a sensitive and controversial topic. conta.cc/4qFzbBA
Me? I got rid of my HP books. Maybe I should've burned them…
The place to be on Halloween in Jacksonville is Black Cat Comics on Stockton Street. There will be bands, tarot card readings, a food truck, free comics and the release of the horror anthology featuring many of Jacksonville’s best artists and writers.
October 27, 2025 at 12:55 AM
The place to be on Halloween in Jacksonville is Black Cat Comics on Stockton Street. There will be bands, tarot card readings, a food truck, free comics and the release of the horror anthology featuring many of Jacksonville’s best artists and writers.
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My cousin is launching a very cool game next month. If you're into good times with friends, check it out!
prelaunch.playsubversia.com
prelaunch.playsubversia.com
Subversia is a quick card game of simultaneous espionage. Everyone plays action cards at the same time to plot attacks, steal intel, and topple their neighbor's regimes.
prelaunch.playsubversia.com
August 29, 2025 at 12:32 PM
My cousin is launching a very cool game next month. If you're into good times with friends, check it out!
prelaunch.playsubversia.com
prelaunch.playsubversia.com
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Trump: "How dare Canada tell the truth about how Republicans once felt about tariffs and trade wars?!"
October 26, 2025 at 1:58 AM
Trump: "How dare Canada tell the truth about how Republicans once felt about tariffs and trade wars?!"
Spent Friday evening on a date with my wife at Happy Medium Books and Café. Caught Tim Gilmore interviewing @craigtimes.bsky.social talking about Craig’s latest book, Welcome To Florida.
Yes, there are STILL good things about Florida.
Yes, there are STILL good things about Florida.
October 25, 2025 at 8:48 PM
Spent Friday evening on a date with my wife at Happy Medium Books and Café. Caught Tim Gilmore interviewing @craigtimes.bsky.social talking about Craig’s latest book, Welcome To Florida.
Yes, there are STILL good things about Florida.
Yes, there are STILL good things about Florida.
Reposted by Michael G. O'Connell
I love those ‘tough men’ in their camo and masks are scared away by people in their PJs 😂😂😂😂
October 25, 2025 at 4:45 PM
I love those ‘tough men’ in their camo and masks are scared away by people in their PJs 😂😂😂😂
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My comfort in folklore often comes from the fact it ratifies the truths that greed is an evil, tyranny is to be opposed and manners matter. If it legitimises a fear of trespassing against the common good by the rich, it is performing one of its fundamental roles. – #CLNolan #FolkloreThursday
October 23, 2025 at 2:21 PM
My comfort in folklore often comes from the fact it ratifies the truths that greed is an evil, tyranny is to be opposed and manners matter. If it legitimises a fear of trespassing against the common good by the rich, it is performing one of its fundamental roles. – #CLNolan #FolkloreThursday