Stacey Mataxis Whitlow (SMW)
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Welcome to my brain. My daydreams are filled with an unquenchable wanderlust, and an unrequited love affair with words haunts my sleepless nights. I do some of my best work here, my messiest work for sure. Want more? https://a.co/d/iBToOK8
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The Gravity of Smoke. Honorable Mention in The Summer That Wasn’t Challenge.
🌒 Night has a different kind of gravity. In the basement of a dingy college pool hall, this gravity settles into the walls, thick as smoke and twice as heavy. It wraps around one’s shoulders, seeps into one’s hair, clinging to one’s clothes, and it slides into one’s lungs like an old sorrow.
By Stacey Mataxis Whitlow (SMW)7 months ago in Fiction
The Absence of Me. . Winner in You Were Never Really Here Challenge.
The door is locked. It hasn’t been opened in six days. Beyond it, the world hums like a distant machine. Muffled footsteps of a mother too afraid to knock can be heard outside the door. The whirring pulse of the ceiling fan overhead adds an off rythm ticking and underneath it all, the quiet click-click of something inside my skull trying to reboot itself.
By Stacey Mataxis Whitlow (SMW)7 months ago in Fiction
