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Mike Critelli is a Writer — short stories, essays, poems, and soon a full-length memoir


Lemons and Ladybugs

 Lemons and Ladybugs is the title of a memoir set to be released in late 2022. A genre-bending piece of spiritual non-fiction with timeless wisdom for the age of social media.

Writing about my late cousin Kevin was a labor of love, especially since I wasn’t sure, at first, exactly how I felt the man. In certain ways he was a cautionary tale of lost potential, indulgence and addiction, yet the thousands who gathered to mourn him at the tender age of 33 were awed by his uncommon kindness and strength. Through interviews, vignettes, and the unfiltered blog entries kept by Kevin’s widow Angel during his cancer battle, together we seek the source of his grace, and re-imagine success, self worth and masculinity in the process. By the closing pages it’s clear, “inside every person is an entire universe,” and the legacies we leave on earth are capable of trampling down death itself.

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Selected Short Stories and Essays

 

always cut out WHY

Baseball Sucks (Or, It Doesn't)

The Basketball Diaries

The "Body"

Empty Promises and Dirty Apartments

"Forget it, Jake. It's Chinatown."

Freebirding the Locust

The God of Big Things

Great Expectations

Growing Up

Higher Standards

how I do things I don't know how to do

"it's not you, it's not me"

Los Angeles: City of Angels and Bats

A Man of Mystery

nc/ns

The Ozzman Cameth

out with the old

the past does not exist

Performance! Anxiety!

Primal Fears

Rock Bottom, Top-Down Sales

Scared Straight

Superman can't be invisible too

Why Football?

"Women! Can't live with 'em..."

why won't you stop??

 

Selected Poetry