Mike Piero 🏳️🌈
Writer. Novelist. Poet. Game Studies Scholar. Writing in J Journal, Midway Journal, Rain Taxi, Moveable Type, Impost, Sandy River Review, & Trash Cat Lit. *Views are my own.* Monarch and Best Short Fictions noms. More at www.mikepiero.org. He/Him. Bi. 🩷💜💙
- What a stunning drawing of my beautiful Lyra! Awww—thank you so much! 💙💙💙
- Nothing helps a rough day like receiving a publication acceptance email! More to share soon--for now, we dance. 😁 #writersofsky #writerlife
- SNOW DAY TOMORROW (or, to be precise, an extreme cold weather day due to living in the Anthropocene). #catsky #cats
- So very saddened to learn of Hungarian filmmaker Béla Tarr’s death. Rest in peace. Thank you for the gift of your art, which endures.
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- I’m finally reading The Melancholy of Resistance by Krasznahorkai, who was recently awarded the 2025 Nobel Prize in Literature. It’s a stunning work of #literaryfiction, set in an exhausted, remote Hungarian town that confronts the unannounced arrival of a traveling circus during winter. #fiction
- Happy new year! Wishing everyone a healthy 2026! May it be infinitely better than 2025z #cats #cat #catsofsky
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- Just finished drafting a short book review of Simon Stålenhag's most recent fictional artwork, Sunset at Zero Point. What a life-affirming read. Thank you for writing it, Simon. #queerfiction #scifi Check it out here: www.simonandschuster.com/books/Sunset...
- When your fire shines too brightly… Sigh.
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- Seldom-used floor lamp converted into a reading light over the couch. Perfect. #reading #booklovers
- 2025 Year in Review
- This new iPhone update really takes me back to the release of Windows Vista. Similar experience. Sigh. #iphone #nostalgia
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- Chuffed to bits that my story, “Latibule,” was nominated by Midway Journal for inclusion in the 2026 Best Small Fictions Anthology! Couldn’t be more honored and grateful. 😊 Check out “Latibule” here: midwayjournal.com/latibule/ #fiction #shortstory #writersofsky #literature #authorsofsky
- Super thrilled to have helped lead the launch of Cuyahoga Community College's Esports Team, serving as Head Coach. Looking forward to NJCAAE Div. III play this Spring with more Div. I & II competition next academic year! We're also in the process of creating our Tri-C Esports Center! #esports
- Define #love: Coming home at 9 pm after a long day at work to find this waiting in your office. #kingofthehill
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- Excited about some new writing I've begun. More soon.
- This was me this week. LOVE higher ed politics. 🙃 Need to get out of meetings and back to my writing. #bollocks #borderlands #highered
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- Just submitted my nominations for the 3rd Annual Chill Subs Community Favorites Best Lit Mag Awards. Nominations are due by Dec 5 and winners will be announced on Dec 15. Great way to celebrate the stalwart work, passion, and support our outstanding editors out in! www.chillsubs.com/best-lit-mag...
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- I need this. #mtg
- Haven’t posted #cat pics in a while—here’s a festive one for our favorite holiday! Lyra doesn’t mind the body costume but isn’t a big fan of the hat. 🎃👻💀 Also, happy National Coming Out Day! Special shout out to my fellow Bi+ peeps! 🏳️🌈🏳️🌈 #lgbtq #pride #catsofbluesky #catlovers #cats #felinefriends
- A lovely treat arrived from Bonny Doon Vineyards yesterday, their Grenache-based Le Cigare Volant, which I ordered after watching too many #Frasier episodes (Le Cigare Volant is the of Frasier and Niles’ favorite restaurant). Check out the wine here: www.bonnydoonvineyard.com/product/2023...
- What a shitty day. I need a vacation.
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- Amazing anthology raising money for a great cause! Pick up your copy today! I ordered a few myself today. Honored to have a story included in it. Grab WHAT COMES TO LIGHT here: mybook.to/WhatComesToL... #fiction #charity #writersky #writingcommunity #publishing #literature #fictionwriters
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- So very honored. 💗💜💙 Thank you, @trashcatlit.bsky.social!
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- Pleased to share that my book review of @mchristinebd.bsky.social's brilliant debut novel, The Height of Land, just dropped in Rain Taxi. Check it out through the link below! Also be sure to pick up The Height of Land: www.orisonbooks.com/product-page... #bookreview raintaxi.com/rain-taxi-re...
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- Working on a new short story, "Lawn Jesus," along with drafting an autobiographically-driven op-ed about the existential dangers of evangelical Christian nationalism. My debut novel, ROGUE BURNOUT, also addresses this theme in the context of an esports tournament: mikepiero.org/index.php/ro...
- Each week, I engage in the work of deep mourning at the loss of time not spent writing. Another day gone, evaporated into the heavens. Sometimes the melancholy drives me back to the writing, and sometimes it drives me elsewhere. Only a writer or an artist knows this burden we carry. #writerslife
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- Nothing like a hot buttered rum once the weather cools down.
- Finally made it to the Murakami exhibit in Cleveland! Incredible and insightful, especially with how catastrophe has shaped his art (particularly post-2011 Japan). #art #murakami #painting
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- New Substack #blog post on #writingtips and reflections as I plot my second #novel, ACACIA. It's a good time to reflect on what I've learned from my first novel, Rogue Burnout (mikepiero.org/index.php/ro...), and what I'm doing differently this time. Check it out: open.substack.com/pub/mikepier...
