Michael Bettendorf (he/him) is a multi-genre writer from the Midwest. He’s the author of experimental black metal gamebook TRVE CVLT (2024), cyber-noir collection Midwestern Chrome (2026), and literary bizarro novella Help! I Can’t Stop Shitting Snakes (2027). His short fiction has appeared/forthcoming at Cosmic Horror Monthly, Mythaxis, and elsewhere. He works in a high school library in Lincoln, NE – a place he believes is too strange to be a flyover state. Find him on Bluesky @BeardedBetts and www.michaelbettendorfwrites.com.