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The Ungospels of Michael J. Riser

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  • July 15, 2015

    Black and White

    For the curious, my long absence has come largely from the fact that I did indeed finish my classes, after which I relocated back home to California. I managed to keep myself going through that grueling hardware class, and ended my final semester of the two years I spent at TCC with a 4.0, which…

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  • November 10, 2014

    Live from Slackerville

    So it’s been a good while since I’ve made an update, and I apologize for that. In the last few months, school has gone from interesting to abysmal, and most of my free time has been devoted to language study. When I first went to college over a decade ago, it was with the desire…

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  • May 28, 2014

    Two From the Vault

    Amid the flurry of life-related craziness, school worries, and language study, I have somehow still managed to find time for two things: videogames and publishing fiction. I’ve got two new ones for you today. As of today you can find me in Pantheon’s new anthology Gaia: Shadow and Breath and the first issue of Despumation.…

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  • May 4, 2014

    金繕い or 金継ぎ: a Japanese form of Pottery Repair

    As some of you may know, I’ve recently returned to studying Japanese. This is something I’d invested heavily in several years ago, but during the course of several traumatic life events had managed to lose sight of. Coming back to it was like a breath of fresh air, an invigorating return to purpose. Because I…

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  • April 19, 2014

    Solarcidal Tendencies

    So there’s this monstrosity happening, which is looking like a fantastically wicked awesome anthology, and I’ll be closing out the table of contents with “Love, Posey”, a short story I wrote under the tutelage of Craig Clevenger. I’m pretty excited about that, and really pumped to be sharing space with so many great authors. Some…

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  • April 9, 2014

    Update-o-tron 5000

    Okay, maybe I lied. Maybe this is a lesser model than the 5000. But it’s an update nonetheless, so let’s not split hairs. It’s been a rough month. I won’t go into details other than to say that I needed a break, I got one, and I feel at least marginally refreshed, physically speaking. Emotionally,…

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  • March 6, 2014

    The Darker the Dungeon

    Ah, “darkness”. Few words conjure up so much immediate meaning and are still so subject to arguments about semantic terminology. What is dark to one, after all, may not be to another. What some find distastefully morbid, others mine for inspiration. Yet to some degree we all know what’s implied when the term is used,…

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  • March 2, 2014

    No Road Without a Scene

    Hello, Stress. I haven’t missed you, because you never go away long enough to be missed. Thankfully, my heart is still feeling well, despite complications with the drugs they have me on, but that leaves me more time to focus on mundane stresses. School is mostly busywork this semester with no real challenges, I’ve been…

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  • February 10, 2014

    At the End of that Blind Alley

    Sometimes I need a reminder as regards not just the beauty of the world, but the beauty of its tapestry, the spun consequence of those things we use the inadequacy of the English language to describe: darkness and light, mortality and the spirit. (Dress them up in fancier terms and they suffer no less for…

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  • February 6, 2014

    Frankenheart: Which Makes it Sound Like I Ate too Many Hotdogs

    I don’t relish having to come here and make the following post, in part because I don’t like acknowledging—much less discussing—my physical issues. I don’t suppose this makes for the most compelling of blog posts, either. But if I’m honest, the real reason for my reticence is that I don’t want to think about all…

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