Michael W|Warren Lucas

@mwl.io

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Author of too many books. Sysadmin. Pet rats, martial arts, gelato. Punch white supremacists and TERFs. https://mwl.io. He/him, but not the gay porn star.

A tidbit of manuscript with the section header "Wider RAID-Z VDEVs." The outline that follows reads: "words"
Cute pet rat sitting on a wooden shelf attached to his cage door. Originally, he did not understand that the shelf he's sitting on was attached to the door, and that if I opened the door he'd be carried out over the void. He got upset. I had to pick him up and soothe him. Now? He sits on the shelf so I pick him up and soothe him.
cute pet rat sniffing my outstretched fingers
Cute pet rat, tilde-shaped whiskers spread wide, taking tentative steps on to the ramp out of his cage
cute pet rat sitting by my leg. I'm scritching and massaging behind his ears. He sits perfectly still.
Cute put rat in a box on top of his cage, looking quite pleased with himself. I look away to manage Truffle's attempts to fling himself onto the floor and Fermi gleefully flung himself into the sky, the squeaky little bastard
cute pet rat sniffing my outstretched hand
two cute pet rats in a box of dirt, digging up the stray bits of surviving wheatgrass that survived earlier depredations. Crickets chirps in the background, unaware of the devastation.
cute pet rat peering nervously out of his open cage door.
Three cute pet rats in their cage, dancing around to sniff my outstretched hand
tiny pot with a little sprout of a bonsai tree.
The ramp into the rat cage, with a rat sitting just inside the entrance. Another rat drags a piece of torn-up paper towel into the cage, but the first rat is in his way. "Come on, I'm working here!" There's a brief wrestling match, then the stashing rat proceeds on his way and the first rat moves out of the way.
Asking ChatGPT: How would you summarize Michael W Lucas' book catalog? ChatGPT: An error has occurred, followed by error message.
Three cute rats in a travel cage, waiting for me to finish stealing their poo
Cute pet rat presenting himself for pets. He's not quite sure what to make of the affection, but he's giving it a good try.
60 seconds of WIP? meh. 60 seconds of pets? YEAH I know why you're really here. #petRats #rats
Cute pet rat sitting at the edge of his cage, being massaged by my giant hand
Cute pet rat sprawled on the bridge between his cage and the futon. My giant hand petting him. Other rats appear, investigate, decide it's consensual, move on.
A 7-Eleven. Right outside my apartment. Right FREAKING THERE. It calls me in the night. Whispers in my dreams. "Wouldn't a nice Slurpee soothe you right now? Imagine the delicious feeling of those frozen chemicals chilling your throat in this heat. You have the app, so your every seventh is free. You like free, don't you? Free joy can be yours. Come to me, my little lost soul. You deserve to feel chilled in your core."
snotty pretentious writer saying "I know writers who use subtext and they're all cowards"
stitch, laughing maniacally, backlit by green flames and ruin
a cute pet rat being petted by my hand
The books in the Escape From 2026 Bundle
the covers of the books in the Escape From 2026 bundle
cute pet rat sitting in the opening of his cage, grooming his whiskers and looking thoughtful. Immediately after this photo he leaped out, climbed the couch, and attempted to spelunk my nostrils
the covers of the books in the bundle
The books in the Escape From 2026 Bundle
godzilla roaring BOOK
A train crossing the road in front of me. A giant, long, slow train, apparently driven by a sloth on quaaludes
Three betrayed cute pet rats stuck in a travel cage, their noses peeking out
the covers of the books in the Escape From 2026 Bundle
cute pet rat curled up in a hammock, trying to nap except he has to give you the eye because you're looking at him how dare
cute pet rat enthusiastically digging in a washtub of wheatgrass, looking for a treat
a white plastic dish tub filled with growing wheatgrass. A rat perches on the edge, eating grass. Two other rats investigate.
me wearing my Beaver Tails T-shirt
Covers of all the books in the Escape From 2026 Bundle
Cute pet rat sitting in a cardboard box on a futon. He leaves the box, fetches a treat from his puzzle box, and goes back to eat it.
Three cute pet rats leaving their cage to come crawl across the futon, my lap, and me, curiously exploring everything and illustrating that they have no sense of personal space
Old bicycle with a Rock Brothers pannier rack on the back and a milk crate zip-tied thereupon
Cute pet rat on top of his hammock, looking at you with an interested but dubious expression
three cute pet rats in the corner of their cage, all looking very interested in my direction
Three pet rats exploring over and around a flip-top puzzle and cardboard boxes on a sheet-covered futon.
The covers of all the books in the Escape from 2026 bundle
cute pet rat, curled up in a ball on top of his hut, soundly asleep
three full-size keyboard boxes, a printer's book-shipping box, and two large plastic tubs, all containing keyboards. Yes, they're all essential. Some are irreplaceable. I SAID THEY'RE ALL ESSENTIAL.
cute pet rat sitting motionless on a towel on my lap, getting scritched right behind his ears.
A steamer on a glass-top stove, wobbling back and forth like what's inside is trying to get out. No steam yet, but there's frozen swai with Old Bay surrounded by asparagus within. Once the water started to boil, it stopped rattling. Dinner was tasty.
a tidy four-level rat cage backlit by a balcony, with three freshly released blurs running amok therein
the covers of the books in the Escape From 2026 bundle
A printer paper box labeled ROCKS. Yes, it contains rocks. Lots of them. Wrapped in bubble wrap, because I pried them from the earth itself with my bare hands. Well, okay, a crowbar, but still. Hands were involved! It was the Utah high desert, in July. I bloody well EARNED those rocks and I'm keeping them. (They're trilobites.)
woman laughing, slowly dissolving into wretched sobs
cute pet rat in a cardboard box, munching on a piece of cracker that his brother meticulously hid in the box where he was sure nobody would ever find it.
Cute pet rat perched on a wooden shelf near the top of his cage, positioned to spring into flight
cute pet rat with tilde whiskers, lounging in a hammock and looking interested at the world
"Escape from 2026" showing the book covers in the Escape from 2026 bundle
two rats snuggled up sleeping atop a fuzzy hammock. Another rat is peering out of the hammock's bottom layer, warning you to not disturb anyone. ANYONE.
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas clip: "We can't stop here. This is bat country."
two cute pet rats snuggled together happily in top of a hammock, looking quite smug
cute pet rat atop a multilevel hanging hammock, looking quite satisfied with his life and his decisions.
two cute pet rats peering out of their hammock, looking ready to leap out and begin their day