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Michael Beyer @mick4ey5.bsky.social · 2d

A Little Bit .Gif-fy… Not Goofy

Sometimes life gets a bit tough when you are old and diabetic and grumpy all the time… and your kids are still teenagers… and you have to spend four hours a day driving them to two diff…

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Michael Beyer @mick4ey5.bsky.social · 3d

No Excuses Here

Having moved to Iowa in the last three weeks, I must confess I have not been writing much of anything at all during that time. My health is poor. My life has changed due to old age. So, my second c…

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Michael Beyer @mick4ey5.bsky.social · 4d

Fascination

I am falling apart. My health is poor and continuing to fail. My memory is suffering from an inability to remember the names of things. I find myself in the kitchen having gone in for a specific pu…

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Michael Beyer @mick4ey5.bsky.social · 5d

Every Picture Has a Story

This is an illustration that goes along with my first good published novel, Catch a Falling Star. I don’t talk about that novel in this blog very much anymore since, in order to actually prom…

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Michael Beyer @mick4ey5.bsky.social · 6d

Demons and Devils

Playing Dungeons and Dragons in Texas during the ’80’s and ’90’s was basically a subversive act. The reason? Fundamentalist Christians actively stepped in and pe…

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Michael Beyer @mick4ey5.bsky.social · 8d

New Pix and an Old Pic

Ladybeetle the Pixie, the original pen and ink. Before and then after the first AI Mirror app edit. To Dance in Heaven, a picture in colored pencils done in 1984

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Michael Beyer @mick4ey5.bsky.social · 8d

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 · 8d

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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Michael Beyer @mick4ey5.bsky.social · 9d

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 · 9d

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 · 9d

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 · 11d

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 · 15d

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 · 16d

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 · 17d

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 · 19d

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 · 20d

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 · 23d

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 · 25d

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 · 26d

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 · Sep 18

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 · Sep 17

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…