C. Matthew Smith
@cmattwrite.bsky.social
Old with wandering. Probably sore from it, too. Author of TWENTYMILE (“taut, page-turning”—Atlanta Journal-Constitution). THE ONES IN THE CORNER forthcoming from Winding Road Stories. www.cmattsmithwrites.com.
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Twentymile | Latah Books
Book Description When wildlife biologist Alex Lowe is found dead inside Great Smoky Mountains National Park, it looks on the surface like a suicide. But Tsula Walker, Special Agent with the National P...
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“TWENTYMILE is packed with everything I love: A strong, female character; a wilderness setting; gripping storytelling; masterful writing.” —Diane Les Becquets, author of BREAKING WILD
“a taut, page-turning thriller” —Atlanta Journal-Constitution
www.latahbooks.com/blank-1/twen...
“a taut, page-turning thriller” —Atlanta Journal-Constitution
www.latahbooks.com/blank-1/twen...
“Well, I'm not the world's most passionate guy,
But when I looked in her eyes, well, I almost fell for my Lola.
Lo-Lo-Lo-Lo-Lola.
Lo-Lo-Lo-Lo-Lola.”
But when I looked in her eyes, well, I almost fell for my Lola.
Lo-Lo-Lo-Lo-Lola.
Lo-Lo-Lo-Lo-Lola.”
November 22, 2025 at 11:45 PM
“Well, I'm not the world's most passionate guy,
But when I looked in her eyes, well, I almost fell for my Lola.
Lo-Lo-Lo-Lo-Lola.
Lo-Lo-Lo-Lo-Lola.”
But when I looked in her eyes, well, I almost fell for my Lola.
Lo-Lo-Lo-Lo-Lola.
Lo-Lo-Lo-Lo-Lola.”
Oh damn. 🧅🧅
Going to end on one of the most beautiful commercials ever made with the reminder and a call to remember the small things. They make a big difference to others.
Love all, help all.
Go Jackets.
Love all, help all.
Go Jackets.
November 21, 2025 at 9:19 PM
Oh damn. 🧅🧅
It’s not unusual for affidavits to be drafted by counsel. But the witness should understand every word of that testimony and confirm it’s true before signing under penalty of perjury. The slapdash nature of the DOJ these days is shocking.
A senior ICE official just admitted in an evidentiary hearing in Kilmar Abrego Garcia’s case that someone else drafted his declaration in the case and he didn’t know what certain words meant.
November 20, 2025 at 5:45 PM
It’s not unusual for affidavits to be drafted by counsel. But the witness should understand every word of that testimony and confirm it’s true before signing under penalty of perjury. The slapdash nature of the DOJ these days is shocking.
“[Y]ou have to get up, every day, and engage in creating for its own sake. You can’t control anything about the outcome . . . If nobody else gives a fuck about this but me, is it still worth doing? The answer has to be yes.”
Amen and amen.
Amen and amen.
John Waddy Bullion @johnwaddy.bsky.social interviews Kirsti MacKenzie @keersteemack.bsky.social about her book 'Better To Beg'
they talk about the challenge of writing about music, messy characters, & creating for its own sake. read it !
xraylitmag.com/the-answer-h...
they talk about the challenge of writing about music, messy characters, & creating for its own sake. read it !
xraylitmag.com/the-answer-h...
THE ANSWER HAS TO BE YES: AN INTERVIEW WITH KIRSTI MACKENZIE by John Waddy Bullion
Kirsti MacKenzie’s debut Better to Beg (Sweet Trash Press, 2025) is a rock ’n’ roll novel set against the backdrop (and at the tail end) of the Meet Me in the Bathroom-era New York indie boomlet, told...
xraylitmag.com
November 20, 2025 at 4:19 PM
“[Y]ou have to get up, every day, and engage in creating for its own sake. You can’t control anything about the outcome . . . If nobody else gives a fuck about this but me, is it still worth doing? The answer has to be yes.”
Amen and amen.
Amen and amen.
Y’ALL STOP WHATEVER YOU’RE DOING AND WATCH THIS MOVIE RIGHT NOW. HOLY SHIT.
November 20, 2025 at 3:00 AM
Y’ALL STOP WHATEVER YOU’RE DOING AND WATCH THIS MOVIE RIGHT NOW. HOLY SHIT.
Tonight’s viewing. A Hitchcockian mystery of the highest order, laced with Bong Joon Ho’s absurdist humor and a deep, deep sadness.
November 19, 2025 at 3:41 AM
Tonight’s viewing. A Hitchcockian mystery of the highest order, laced with Bong Joon Ho’s absurdist humor and a deep, deep sadness.
Bunch of degenerates, the whole lot of them.
November 18, 2025 at 3:46 AM
Bunch of degenerates, the whole lot of them.
Oh hell.
oh my god you have to read this until the end www.telos.news/p/part-1-how...
Part 1: How I Found Out
Olivia had just returned from a reporting trip—at least that’s what she told me it was—and her Herschel backpack, the one with the flap that never quite closed properly, was tossed beside our bed, its...
www.telos.news
November 18, 2025 at 3:24 AM
Oh hell.
For those of us who paid attention in 2008, this will sound awfully familiar.
WSJ: “.. If the AI market blows up, the blast radius would be wide, hitting not only Wall Street firms, but also pensions, mutual and exchange-traded funds and individual investors, because of how debt is often sliced and resold across the financial landscape.”
@wsj.com
www.wsj.com/finance/inve...
@wsj.com
www.wsj.com/finance/inve...
November 17, 2025 at 9:22 PM
For those of us who paid attention in 2008, this will sound awfully familiar.
Say what now
Raskin: We are a big tent. We must be a huge, vast tent. I say this is a party that’s got room for Marjorie Taylor Greene if she wants to come over.
November 17, 2025 at 4:54 PM
Say what now
Halfway through this short series and am hooked. It’s this quirky blend of somber and funny that I did not expect. The whole cast is great, but Matthew Macfayden acts his ass off.
November 17, 2025 at 3:30 AM
Halfway through this short series and am hooked. It’s this quirky blend of somber and funny that I did not expect. The whole cast is great, but Matthew Macfayden acts his ass off.
Top 5 movie genres:
Gangsters all up in their feelings
Catastrophic misunderstandings
Woman gets sick of inept men and handles shit
The woods are pretty and really, really scary
Nordic rituals to avoid at all costs
Gangsters all up in their feelings
Catastrophic misunderstandings
Woman gets sick of inept men and handles shit
The woods are pretty and really, really scary
Nordic rituals to avoid at all costs
Top 5 movie genres:
Guy who’s a pathetic piece of shit
Woman falling apart and it’s hard to watch but goddamn
Theater production/movie production falling apart and it’s so fun to watch
Detective but sad
Period film where they just said fuck it
Guy who’s a pathetic piece of shit
Woman falling apart and it’s hard to watch but goddamn
Theater production/movie production falling apart and it’s so fun to watch
Detective but sad
Period film where they just said fuck it
Top 5 movie genres are:
heist
intelligence/espionage thriller
pitch perfect
cerebral ensemble oscar fodder drama
heist some more
heist
intelligence/espionage thriller
pitch perfect
cerebral ensemble oscar fodder drama
heist some more
November 17, 2025 at 12:36 AM
Top 5 movie genres:
Gangsters all up in their feelings
Catastrophic misunderstandings
Woman gets sick of inept men and handles shit
The woods are pretty and really, really scary
Nordic rituals to avoid at all costs
Gangsters all up in their feelings
Catastrophic misunderstandings
Woman gets sick of inept men and handles shit
The woods are pretty and really, really scary
Nordic rituals to avoid at all costs
Local TV news station just interviewed a woman upset by the new THC limitations in federal law. Her solution: “I’m just going to smoke me a little spliff and put it in the Lord’s hands.” Greatest single sentence I’ve ever heard.
November 16, 2025 at 11:08 PM
Local TV news station just interviewed a woman upset by the new THC limitations in federal law. Her solution: “I’m just going to smoke me a little spliff and put it in the Lord’s hands.” Greatest single sentence I’ve ever heard.
Devastating piece on CBS Sunday Morning today regarding the working homeless. It gives the lie to the lazy refrain that the unhoused should just “get a job.” Maybe, just maybe, the problem isn’t laziness but cracks in our economic structure large enough that even the employed slip through.
When the employed are pushed into homelessness
In America we are taught hard work is the key to success. But despite having full-time jobs, many families are locked out of the rental housing market, due to low wages, soaring rents and poor credit,...
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November 16, 2025 at 5:20 PM
Devastating piece on CBS Sunday Morning today regarding the working homeless. It gives the lie to the lazy refrain that the unhoused should just “get a job.” Maybe, just maybe, the problem isn’t laziness but cracks in our economic structure large enough that even the employed slip through.
I’m sure somehow it’ll be Mamdani’s fault.
November 16, 2025 at 5:05 PM
I’m sure somehow it’ll be Mamdani’s fault.
“Well, I remember the night
She sat down beside me.
She cried love was a ring that won't end.
Well, I was handed a lie.
And now, the only thing
I know of a ring
is the circle my glass leaves behind.”
She sat down beside me.
She cried love was a ring that won't end.
Well, I was handed a lie.
And now, the only thing
I know of a ring
is the circle my glass leaves behind.”
November 15, 2025 at 6:16 PM
“Well, I remember the night
She sat down beside me.
She cried love was a ring that won't end.
Well, I was handed a lie.
And now, the only thing
I know of a ring
is the circle my glass leaves behind.”
She sat down beside me.
She cried love was a ring that won't end.
Well, I was handed a lie.
And now, the only thing
I know of a ring
is the circle my glass leaves behind.”
Reposted by C. Matthew Smith
Reposted by C. Matthew Smith
Y’all, I fuckin love this novel and I’m so glad I can shout about it again.
it occurs to me that i have a book coming out in like six days and i have not yet told you what it's about
my bad
if you like any of the following you might fuck with it 💕
✅ indie sleaze
✅ chaos duos
✅ sexual tension
✅ dual POV with frankly unhinged voice
✅ rock n roll
my bad
if you like any of the following you might fuck with it 💕
✅ indie sleaze
✅ chaos duos
✅ sexual tension
✅ dual POV with frankly unhinged voice
✅ rock n roll
November 14, 2025 at 3:11 PM
Y’all, I fuckin love this novel and I’m so glad I can shout about it again.
👀
cover! synopsis! preorder! out in feb!!
"Blending autofiction with fantasy, meta with magic, and earnestness with absurdity, 𝘛𝘢𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘢 presents a recognizable but also magical world where we ask, if nothing is real, then why not have as much fun as possible?"
autofocusbooks.com/store/p/tacoma
"Blending autofiction with fantasy, meta with magic, and earnestness with absurdity, 𝘛𝘢𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘢 presents a recognizable but also magical world where we ask, if nothing is real, then why not have as much fun as possible?"
autofocusbooks.com/store/p/tacoma
November 13, 2025 at 9:25 PM
👀
“His face looked as though it’d been dropped and then reassembled by someone who’d never done it before.”
November 13, 2025 at 7:17 PM
“His face looked as though it’d been dropped and then reassembled by someone who’d never done it before.”
“It was only when you left it alone that a tree might treat you as a friend. After the blade bit in, you had yourself a war.”
November 13, 2025 at 3:08 AM
“It was only when you left it alone that a tree might treat you as a friend. After the blade bit in, you had yourself a war.”
Reposted by C. Matthew Smith
See, look, U.S.A., it's this easy
(and should have been done immediately upon the knowledge that these cheats and grifters were STEALING our work)
(and should have been done immediately upon the knowledge that these cheats and grifters were STEALING our work)
November 11, 2025 at 12:17 AM
See, look, U.S.A., it's this easy
(and should have been done immediately upon the knowledge that these cheats and grifters were STEALING our work)
(and should have been done immediately upon the knowledge that these cheats and grifters were STEALING our work)
