Will McMahon

@willmcmahon36.bsky.social

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Union organizer, writer, cider-maker. https://will-mcmahon.com

Michael holding up a bottle.
Photo of part of the page of a book. Visible text as follows: of seeming original. Américo was part of that group of writers quite capable of affirming, with tears in their eyes, their total dedication to literature - "if I don't write, I waste away," or "oh, writing for me is like breathing" - despite the fact, unfortunately, that they have nothing to say. Having conquered the final page, I don't think thered be many readers who could summarize the plot. I'm not sure it even had a plot. Still, Américo pretended to believe me. He clapped me on the back with the manly delight of somebody who has run into an old drinking buddy from his wild youth, and gave me a big, magnanimous smile: "What about you? Have you written much?"
A brown bottle with a label that looks like a cassette, with a hand-written name: Paw Paw Cider. Next to it, a glass of cloudy cider. Both on a wooden table.
Trump holding his ear when he said “Wow, I’m hearing this for the first time.”
Spongebob looking suspiciously at a flyer for a wanted maniac.
A giant wicker man built of wooden pallets, boards, and barrels, well aflame at the moment of sunset.
50+ foot tall Asian pear tree, green leaves and small golden fruit.
Three gallon glass carboy filled with murky brown juice. The surface of the juice is covered in a white foam and there are bubbles visible in the airlock.
Red label with a black and white illustration of two figures hugging. LITTLE POMONA Stoke Red Pét Nat HILL FARM 2023
Murky brown apple juice in two glass carboys/jugs, 3-gallon and 1-gallon.
Tub of ground apple pomace, empty bucket, small wood and metal basket press (filled with pomace) screwed into a wooden pallet.
Cailyn standing at the apple grinder, a square cone of metal on stands with a crank arm feeding into gears to grind the chopped apples into a fine pomace in a waiting bucket.
Cailyn standing with three natural colored sheep (Eleanor and Wendy, large ewes, and Lester, small ram lamb) in a field penned in by cattle panels against the sheep barn. In the background, you can see the other sheep and Marty the guardian dog in another pasture. It’s just after sunset but there’s still light.
Beagle standing dangerously close to a bucket of chopped apples.
Four buckets, two pack baskets, and one bag of mixed apples, plus a large cardboard box of pears, on a concrete floor in my barn.
Packbasket full of small, dense Ussurian pears dropping from a public street tree in Ithaca, NY.
Many different kinds and colors of grapes arrayed on a table.
A clear bottle of very pale yellow cider with sediment. White label with a drawing of red and yellow apples. Kitchen Sink 100% Rose Hill Farm Grown Fruit
A slightly alarmed-looking natural colored (brown/black) ram lamb on a halter.
Beagle growling over a dead woodchuck as we approach.
A beagle carrying a dead woodchuck over long grass.
Close up of tree branches hanging thick with small crab apples. Green with the first touch of red blush.
The front of McSweeney’s 79, an orange fabric cover embroidered with green, yellow, purple, red, and black threads in a dense scene of human figures in a landscape of trees, plants, and an erupting volcano.
Photo of the front of a clear glass bottle half-filled with pale yellow liquid. White label with a black pear; golden lettering in the pear and black beneath. The Pear: Butt The Perry Butt Pear S.V. 2022 Ross-on-Wye
Clear bottle of golden cider, about halfway full, sitting on a grey wooden table with green grass and trees in the background. The white label has green and red text, reading: Green, top: Oliver’s Fine Cider Red, bottom: Yarlington Mill, Season 2023
Tobey Maguire as Spider-Man looking at his hands.
Seven sheep grazing on a grass field with trees in the background, under a cloudy sky.
Photo of an issue of Reckoning 7: creative writing on environmental justice (cover art a small sail boat going up a wave), with a green Reckoning pin.
Sam and I standing together behind a picnic table and in front of an apple tree, each holding a glass of cider. A bottle on the table reads “2024 Wild - Trees 2 + 5.”
Friday, July 18, 2025 12:00 The International Imagination in a Time of Nationalism Salon I/J, Duration: 60 mins 13:00 What Hath the Billionaires Wrought? Create / Collaborate, Duration: 60 mins 21:00 Levels of Interiority Create / Collaborate, Duration: 60 mins Saturday, July 19, 2025 11:00 Reading: Will McMahon Envision / Enliven, Duration: 30 mins Sunday, July 20, 2025 13:00 "After the Revolution" Salon F, Duration: 60 mins
A border collie in tall grass eating a berry from my hand.
Same photo but some jackass’s hand is visible holding several black raspberries.
Foreground: fence totally overgrown with vines and other leafy vegetation, including a black raspberry bush. The berries are mostly still red but some have turned black. Background: a well-manicured cemetery with both new and old stone gravestones, trees, flowers, flags, and a shed.
Two books side by side, paperback and hardcover editions of the same anthology. Title: You, Human: An anthology of dark science fiction, vol. 2: edited by Michael Bailey. Illustration: a mechanical heart, chrome on a black background.
Two young green apples growing together on a thin branch surrounded by leaves. The apples are green with light green spots, and one has just the beginning of a pink blush.
Photo of a dark glass bottle with a white label, featuring an image of an early 19th century pistol. Homestead Locational Ciders. Callicoon Creeks Unsprayed, uncultivated apples foraged from the hills above the East and North Branch of the Callicoon Creek Dry. Unfiltered: contains lees. Pour off slowly or decant to evenly distribute. Chill & point away from people when opening. 95 cases Store in a dark, cool location.
Sample or wallpaper stuck on a drywall wall. Beige background with yellow flowers and blue-green leaves.
An apple tree standing just beyond the corner of two fences. On its other side, you can see the start of forest growth. Under the tree is an aluminum ladder and a pile of dead vines. The tree is maybe 20-25 feet high, with branches of green leaves coming off a relatively thin trunk. In the upper canopy, there is still a cluster of dead vines.
Front label of a cider bottle. The bottle is an odd matte black, as is the label. Lettering gold foil: Anxiety Great Valley Cuvée Dry Cider 750ML Image of a black spiral trefoil in a golden triangle.
Updated below, 12:36 p.m.: The production agreed to recognize the union, and the picket has concluded.
Foreground: a cider bottle with a white label, bearing an image of a colorful nebula within the outline a bird sitting on top of a buffalo. Background: sheep graze in a pasture of tall grass beneath an apple tree.
Screenshot of a book cover in the Libro.fm audiobook app. Metallic Realms A Novel Lincoln Michel Author of The Body Scout Read by Shaun Taylor-Corbett Cover is an illustration of two astronauts looking at a ringed planet, juxtaposed with the Manhattan Bridge.
Lineup of books: Compact Edition of the Oxford English Dictionary I & II The History of Surrealism (Maurice Nadeau) Surrealism (Patrick Waldberg) Minoan and Mycenaean Art (Reynold Higgins) Galaxy: Thirty Years of Science Fiction The Very Best of the Best: 35 Years of The Year’s Best Science Fiction (Gardner Dozois) The Year’s Best Science Fiction, 19th Annual Collection (Dozois) The Best From Fantasy & Science Fiction The Sparrow (Mary Doria Russell) Again, Dangerous Visions I & II (Harlan Ellison) Great Soviet Short Stories The Mysterious Stranger and Other Stories (Mark Twain) Letters From Earth (Twain) Meanwhile (H.G. Wells) Babbitt (Sinclair Lewis)
The Compact Edition of the Oxford English Dictionary, two clothbound hardcovers (one A-O and one P-Z with Supplement and Bibliography) in a blue cardboard case. At the top of the case is a small, closed drawer.
Photo of one of my hands in a yellow leather glove holding the other glove and a pick hoe, above a hole I’m partway through digging in the ground.
A closer label with an illustration of a hand grasping a quince fruit.
Photo of seven Border Leicester sheep, five white and two black, in a green field full of yellow dandelions.
Close-up of a black label on a brown glass bottle. Blue and orange text says: OLIVER'S FINE PERRY ALMOST A PET NAT BUT STILL A TANGY PERRY SEASON 2023
Photo of the front of a cider bottle label featuring a black and white drawing of an apple tree. Text: “The Jimmer, Sparkling Dry Cider.”
Photo of a full size apple tree full of green leaves and red apples in a field of grass, with a dark blue house in the background. The evening sun gives everything a golden cast.
Photo of two three gallon carboys of cider sitting on a kitchen counter, siphoning into a plastic bucket. A bunch of empty glass bottles sit to one side.
Photo of glasses partially filled with cider on a countertop. Back row - five glasses in a row labeled with sticky notes: #2 Wild, #5 Wild, #3 Wild, #2 CdB, #3 CdB. Front row - a small tasting glass and a graduated cylinder with a wine thief in it.
Me sporting a National Writers Union hat and shirt. Both white and red text on black.
Landscape photo of a pond surrounded by trees and green pasture. There’s a goose floating on the pond.
Close up of half-inch green apple buds blossoming on a tree branch. Background is blurred green pasture, fence, a barn, and distant trees.