Michael Tichy

@emptywrites.bsky.social

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“Writing is a marathon you’re allowed to get drunk during” - Kurosawa Author of ambivalent realism and other variations of sadness. Wound of the West out now from Castaigne Publishing. https://castaignepublishing.bigcartel.com/product/wound-of-the-west

Smoky sky. Sun is a pale yellow dot with a sickly orange aura. A feeble island in an ocean of gray. None of us wanted this but we are all captive to the psychosis of unmitigated aggregation where wealth is found wanting and the creature has but one set of skills and seeks relief in further acquisition and on and on. Ñ
Painting of a vampire, upturned collar, in profile. Grotesque and ancient
Bald man with a shot of vodka. He looks tired
A possum who is also a wizard, covers the front of a tank top like a shield. Like a ward against bad vibes. The man wearing this tank top is sweaty, displaying the agony of too many miles on a 51 year old frame. But don’t underestimate him.
iPad and keyboard with a plush fox behind it and a dozing noodle horse in the background
Bald man with sexy mustache contemplating glass of red wine with tank top reading “Not trying to slut shame but some of you could be sluttier”.
Marinated pork and fried potatoes
Open sub for horror anthology offering $5 for original unpublished works
Anthology of early Steinbeck novels on an unfinished wood table
Tibetan monks destroy a mandala in an affirmation of the ephemeral nature of all things
Tattooed man in locker room wearing Chinga La Migra tank top
Witch’s runes. Romance rune, harvest rune, and flight rune. The tiles are 5000 year old Russian bogwood. Ooh spooky
Black greyhound smiles in rainbow star pajamas
Man in dude sweater toasts the new year
Man in Santa hat and martyrs shirt holds White Russian
Greyhound in pajamas and bearded bald man in robe
Bearded bald man smiling with White Russian
Just a little sweaty bearded bald guy with clouds and a skeletonized tree in the background
Black and white. Woman dressed like a nun cradles another woman’s head with the caption I am damned
Happy sweaty bearded man in Weirdpunk hoodie.
Black and white photo of bearded man wearing a dark jacket and decapitated clown shirt
Bearded man choked by gruesome hand
Picture of manuscript “kin to a dying star” with cute little x-acto knife hovering above
Sweaty bearded sweet man framed by branches
Arwen (Liv Tyler) from lord of the rings with sword on a horse looking tough
Sweaty man with beard looking extra hunky.
Sweaty bearded man is shook
Half naked man with tattoos laying in fallen leaves like the earth itself is softening and inviting you to settle on its bosom for rest. Sweet sweet rest.
Tired bearded man wearing realtree camo pink hat that says Thank God for Queers and Monster Trucks
Sweaty sexy 50 year old bearded man smiles invitingly in front of the kettlebells that nearly kilt him
Picture of man in glasses with old style print script “a lot of motherfuckers think their diary is a novel”
Too cold to be sexy. Bearded sweaty man on a chilly Ohio morning
Sabrina the greyhound with a massive blep
Reading a book. A white greyhound sits next to me thinking deep thoughts
Sweaty bald doll of a man stands with sun and sky at his back
Bearded bald man drinks from big jar
Bald bearded seductor poses with kettlebell in a psycho goreman hunky boy’s tank top
Sweaty bald and bearded man poses seductively
Bald bearded and very sweaty man in front of a tree
50 year old bald and bearded man who is sweaty and tired
Aging Harry Dean Stanton in a cowboy hat
Sweaty and tired man feels all of his 50 years
Guy Pearce and Robert Pattinson from the film The Rover, walking on a dusty road with pistols.
A whit greyhound with spots sleeps on her side on a brown couch. She lays on a sleeping pad and there are bits of sunlight.
Russian nurse from the sopranos looking surly, smoking and drinking.
Album cover depicts Public Enemy and the S1Ws on a dark background
Can of blackberry mojito claw tails. It’s a garbage malt beverage and the very shallow end of garbage beverages i consume
Dude with hat and sunglasses and beer. He looks kind of douchey to be honest