Mike McHone
@mike_mchone
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Writer. Won the Derringer Award. Nominated for the Pushcart Prize, Best of the Net, etc. Published in Ellery Queen, AHMM, Playboy, elsewhere.
Joined April 2021
As 2025 winds down, how about we look back on the highlights of some of my shit? 19 pieces published (12 new stories, 2 reprints, 1 soon to be published, and 4 poems), 2 award nominations, and 1 Derringer Award win. Hot damn, joy to the world, and all that crap. Peace.
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So this happened. Thanks to @litgarage01 for publishing the story. #PushcartPrize
We may be the new kids on the block, but we still get to do some cool stuff, like nominate stories for Pushcart Prizes. Congrats to @jdclappwrites and @mike_mchone for their outstanding stories. #fiction #pushcartprize
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"Instead of sitting in my mother’s living room, 31, drunk, & jobless, I would be twenty-one, sober, & doing something responsible and worthwhile & American, like fighting in a war somewhere, & everything would look like a 1940s comic book." @mike_mchone
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Two great poems from @MatherSchneider
For #17, we have a 1-2 combo—poems that pack a punch. In “Light” our world is illuminated, its realities defined by shadow. In “Puppy Shit,” we learn it’s not enough that our heart is in the right place. Read 2 Poems by @MatherSchneider. Cheers, Mather!🍸 https://t.co/bZn64duo7F
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Congrats to our nominees for Best of the Net 2025. @billepp4real @TimFrankquill @TDWhitley @damon_hubbs @mike_mchone and Steve Passey.
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Well I'll be damned. A poem of mine, pubbed by @RevolutionJohnM is up for Best of the Net. Fingers crossed.
Congrats to our nominees for Best of the Net 2025. @billepp4real @TimFrankquill @TDWhitley @damon_hubbs @mike_mchone and Steve Passey.
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Voting is useless. Unless, of course, you're voting for my shit. See below and do your civic duty and vote. Or else...
That's a wrap! Vote for your favorite excerpts from the Nails in the Coffin call. https://t.co/LMfuZeatmG
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Great stuff. More reviewers need to follow Hugh's lead and call bullshit on the MFA grifters who write drivel like this. People from blue collar, low-income backgrounds can always spot a fake. Usually, you only need to glance at the best-seller lists to see a shit-ton of them.
Evanthia Bromiley's new novel is about a single mom losing her job as a waitress and facing eviction. I reviewed it for Anxiety Press:
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Shitty americana Check it out folks
For #14, we’re hitting you with some blue ice, & we’re not talking about Gatorade flavors; we’re talking about aviation lavatory waste. Poop, folks—worse than hail. Cover your heads & check out “Death Waits for No One,” by @mike_mchone. Cheers, Mike! 🍸 https://t.co/66aw9VQ2k3
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Sheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeet
For #14, we’re hitting you with some blue ice, & we’re not talking about Gatorade flavors; we’re talking about aviation lavatory waste. Poop, folks—worse than hail. Cover your heads & check out “Death Waits for No One,” by @mike_mchone. Cheers, Mike! 🍸 https://t.co/66aw9VQ2k3
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Very, very good story here from @mike_mchone .
For #14, we’re hitting you with some blue ice, & we’re not talking about Gatorade flavors; we’re talking about aviation lavatory waste. Poop, folks—worse than hail. Cover your heads & check out “Death Waits for No One,” by @mike_mchone. Cheers, Mike! 🍸 https://t.co/66aw9VQ2k3
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For #14, we’re hitting you with some blue ice, & we’re not talking about Gatorade flavors; we’re talking about aviation lavatory waste. Poop, folks—worse than hail. Cover your heads & check out “Death Waits for No One,” by @mike_mchone. Cheers, Mike! 🍸 https://t.co/66aw9VQ2k3
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Sam Mathers stood on his front porch, as quiet as his wife’s headstone, and stared at the rosebush. It was in full bloom now and wealthy with gorgeous red petals. The beauty snagged him like a...
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Gotta say, there's a lot of good stuff here. @OfferKuban @KennethMGRAY2 @carlottadale38 @JWenner_Author and everyone else submitted some good stuff
MICRO MAYHEM v2 Mythic Micros by @KennethMGRAY2 @KMWriter01 @JWenner_Author @carlottadale38 @mike_mchone @fshrum @msladybrute @melissacuisine @KellieScottReed @JohnTures2 @OfferKuban & @jadedwriter_ Curated by @NathanBorn2010 / Nathan Pettigrew #MythicPicnicTweetStory ===
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We're back with a story that hits the high end of gritty American realism from @mike_mchone. Love the fatalism, the stripped down moral compass & cinematic flow. A distinct, hardboiled neo-noir voice Check it out for yourself: https://t.co/ixojPfc3QR 🎸📚 #flash #fiction #noir
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For the rush hour crowd- Today’s story from @mike_mchone hits the high end of gritty American realism. It’s got a distinct, hardboiled neo-noir voice with Cormac McCarthy’s narrative inevitability, Elmore Leonard’s criminal ear, & Taylor Sheridan’s fatalist modern Western tone.
We're back with a story that hits the high end of gritty American realism from @mike_mchone. Love the fatalism, the stripped down moral compass & cinematic flow. A distinct, hardboiled neo-noir voice Check it out for yourself: https://t.co/ixojPfc3QR 🎸📚 #flash #fiction #noir
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Here's a new story over at Literary Garage. You can tell, right from the first line, it's filled with unicorns and happiness and fluffy clouds and kittens. https://t.co/NoPCjhJckP
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