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Mallory Smart
@mallorysmart.bsky.social
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Neurotic Chicago-based writer, editor-in-chief of Maudlin House, podcaster, and doer of many odd things. https://mallorysmart.com/
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Mallory Smart @mallorysmart.bsky.social · May 30
Tragicomic: a thread of stories and spirals from 2025

❏ suburbia in retrograde
❏ analog glitches
❏ dispatches from the Dave multiverse

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Mallory Smart @mallorysmart.bsky.social · 7h
Tonite at The Midnight Realm…
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Mallory Smart @mallorysmart.bsky.social · 17h
Proof that 80s and 90s kids’ movies were unhinged fever dreams we were all somehow chill about it…
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Mallory Smart @mallorysmart.bsky.social · 1d
Writers love attention. Rate and review Textual Healing so I can prove it scientifically…

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Mallory Smart @mallorysmart.bsky.social · 1d
Saw Tron then went to a lit reading in Logan Square. Two different cults, same amount of synth…
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Mallory Smart @mallorysmart.bsky.social · 1d
Obligatory Logan Theatre selfie…
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Mallory Smart @mallorysmart.bsky.social · 1d
What if the internet felt like a weird motel
and not a marketing campaign?

Textual Healing x Zona Motel
with Juliet Escoria + Mesha Maren 🐐

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Mallory Smart @mallorysmart.bsky.social · 2d
Mellow Mass Hysteria—A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors (1987) 

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Mallory Smart @mallorysmart.bsky.social · 3d
Woke up at 5am for this…😅
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Mallory Smart @mallorysmart.bsky.social · 4d
Tonite at The Midnight Realm…
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Mallory Smart @mallorysmart.bsky.social · 4d
Can you guess what movie we’re about to talk about today on That Horrorcast?
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Mallory Smart @mallorysmart.bsky.social · 5d
I spend my nights writing horror in an office that could host a séance…
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Mallory Smart @mallorysmart.bsky.social · 5d
Tonite at The Midnight Realm…
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Mallory Smart @mallorysmart.bsky.social · 5d
Just got the flu and covid vaccines. Time to test their limits with tequila and bad 80s horror…
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Mallory Smart @mallorysmart.bsky.social · 5d
Zona Motel was never just a name. It’s a borderland for voices that don’t fit elsewhere.

Juliet and Mesha talk origin stories on this week’s Textual Healing...🎧
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Mallory Smart @mallorysmart.bsky.social · 6d
Pumpkin spice and existential dread 🪦
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Mallory Smart @mallorysmart.bsky.social · 6d
I talked Zona Motel with Juliet Escoria and Mesha Maren. Chaos, art, and the rare reminder that the internet can still be fun.

New Textual Healing Saturday…🐐

📸 Juliet’s photo by Saja Montague
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Mallory Smart @mallorysmart.bsky.social · 7d
Everything from now on is myth-building. If you see me at a bar, it’s lore. If I disappear for a week, it’s canon…
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Mallory Smart @mallorysmart.bsky.social · 7d
I don’t trust mornings but I trusted this one.

Writers. Donuts. Titty committees.

Morning, Fuckers is live ☕️

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Mallory Smart @mallorysmart.bsky.social · 8d
Me after having people over:

Are we good?
Did I talk too much?
Was I too quiet?
Did everyone have fun?
Do they secretly hate me?
Maybe I’ll just delete myself from the group chat…
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Mallory Smart @mallorysmart.bsky.social · 8d
It’s a “Carnival of Souls” at The Midnight Realm tonite…
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Mallory Smart @mallorysmart.bsky.social · 9d
Almost midnight. 8 hours of Ed Gein, some writing, and then an hour of Stevie Nicks. The vibes are confusing and perfect…
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Mallory Smart @mallorysmart.bsky.social · 9d
Ed Gein did magic tricks with body parts while babysitting.

I let my cousin watch Scream and Evil Dead.

I’d like my aunt to tell me again who the “bad babysitter” was.
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Mallory Smart @mallorysmart.bsky.social · 9d
For the next 8hrs at The Midnight Realm…
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Mallory Smart @mallorysmart.bsky.social · 9d
Before Ed. Before Dahmer. Before John Wayne Gacy. There was the Midwest itself.

Just remembered I wrote something about why it breeds the best serial killers…

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Mallory Smart @mallorysmart.bsky.social · 9d
Settled in with Halloween candy, my lazy hoodie with the broken zipper, and Monster: The Ed Gein Story.

Starbuck thinks I need help…
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