Mallory Smart
@malsmart
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Writer from Chicago. Two novels & a poetry collection. Founder of @maudlinhouse. Host of Textual Healing and That Horrorcast. Still keeping things weird.
Chicago
Joined April 2009
Tragicomic: a thread of stories and spirals from 2025. ❏ suburbia in retrograde.❏ analog glitches.❏ dispatches from the Dave multiverse. 🧵👇.
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People keep telling me to “romanticize my life.” Sorry, babe, it’s already a Lynch film….
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RT @ScottLaudati: This Staurday in Johnstown, PA is going to be totally tubular! 9 hrs of music, poetry, and performance art, plus all the….
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RT @PodHealing: For when reality feels like a bit, but you’re still rolling with it…. 🖤 David Winner: Some Surreal Joke (S3E22). 🖤 Steve Ge….
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RT @PodHealing: If you could pair your writing with one song, what would it be? Ben Niespodziany made his pick. Off the Record drops Satu….
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Blessed is the girl who fake-cried at her own exorcism. For she alone understood performance art. -Rot Revelations 6:6.
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RT @MaudlinHouse: 3 weeks until the offsite lit reading you actually want to be at. Burn After Reading. Sept 6, Gallery Cabaret. 🔥 https://….
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“What we call stability is only collapse in slow motion.”. First Substack in over a month. On mudslides, memory, and the quiet ways everything gives out….
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Sydney Prescott walked so my story could run. It’s Giving Final Girl is live at @vol1brooklyn .
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RT @PodHealing: Ever trauma bonded with a stranger over a weird book? Prove it. Rate Textual Healing…. https://t.….
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It’s been over a month since I last wrote one of these. Not because I didn’t want to. Because life kept breaking and reassembling in unfamiliar ways. Nothing collapsed. Everything just shifted. Quietly.
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Just learned my neighbors can hear me through my office window. Which means yes, they’ve heard me sing “Hot in Herre” to Starbuck. Several times. .
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My story It’s Giving Final Girl was featured this week in The Shortlist from Turn & Work. For anyone who’s ever wondered if their weekend getaway is secretly a slasher….
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There's a lot here this week. New fiction at Turn & Work, two nonfiction pieces and 10 short stories.
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RT @MaudlinHouse: This city runs on murder, disco, and bad decisions. Disco Murder City — for readers who want their horror loud, campy, an….
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RT @PodHealing: For when the existential crisis is real, but the vibes are chill…. 🖤 Florida Man: What’s on the Menu with Chase Griffin (S1….
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