Mallory Smart
@mallorysmart.bsky.social
Neurotic Chicago-based writer, editor-in-chief of Maudlin House, podcaster, and doer of many odd things.
https://mallorysmart.com/
https://mallorysmart.com/
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BONFIRE GOSPEL is coming this December from Bone Machine.
A little book of Midwest rot, dead faith, and people who break in strange ways.
Feels feral. Feels like me.🔥
A little book of Midwest rot, dead faith, and people who break in strange ways.
Feels feral. Feels like me.🔥
Avoiding my own family’s chaos this Thanksgiving by hosting a completely different family’s chaos...
Work smarter. Not harder.
Work smarter. Not harder.
November 27, 2025 at 3:33 PM
Avoiding my own family’s chaos this Thanksgiving by hosting a completely different family’s chaos...
Work smarter. Not harder.
Work smarter. Not harder.
Venturing into the Upside Down at The Midnight Realm…
November 27, 2025 at 1:18 AM
Venturing into the Upside Down at The Midnight Realm…
A book with a 72-hour lifespan feels like a dare.
Bonfire Gospel starts Dec 6.
Come play with fire.🔥
Bonfire Gospel starts Dec 6.
Come play with fire.🔥
November 27, 2025 at 12:34 AM
A book with a 72-hour lifespan feels like a dare.
Bonfire Gospel starts Dec 6.
Come play with fire.🔥
Bonfire Gospel starts Dec 6.
Come play with fire.🔥
Anyone else trying to stay online without losing their mind? Same.
Alex Moreno talks doomscrolling on Textual Healing this Saturday. Come hang…🎧
Alex Moreno talks doomscrolling on Textual Healing this Saturday. Come hang…🎧
November 26, 2025 at 8:28 PM
Anyone else trying to stay online without losing their mind? Same.
Alex Moreno talks doomscrolling on Textual Healing this Saturday. Come hang…🎧
Alex Moreno talks doomscrolling on Textual Healing this Saturday. Come hang…🎧
The fire starts December 6th. It goes out in 72 hours.
Bonfire Gospel x Bone Machine 🔥
Bonfire Gospel x Bone Machine 🔥
November 26, 2025 at 3:30 PM
The fire starts December 6th. It goes out in 72 hours.
Bonfire Gospel x Bone Machine 🔥
Bonfire Gospel x Bone Machine 🔥
Alt lit was the beginning. Autofiction was the reckoning. The pandemic was the reset. Horror is the ascent.
I don’t disappear. I evolve.
Outfit of the era…
I don’t disappear. I evolve.
Outfit of the era…
November 26, 2025 at 5:58 AM
Alt lit was the beginning. Autofiction was the reckoning. The pandemic was the reset. Horror is the ascent.
I don’t disappear. I evolve.
Outfit of the era…
I don’t disappear. I evolve.
Outfit of the era…
Reposted by Mallory Smart
“…pulses with rebellious energy [and] deftly captures music’s gritty world with wit and hope, making this debut a true muse for those who dare to be different.” - @mallorysmart.bsky.social (@maudlinhouse.bsky.social)
OUT NOW! Better to Beg: A Novel by @keersteemack.bsky.social, co-published with @sweettrashpress.bsky.social // “…a rip-roaring, heart-and-soul-gutting tour through the rock-n-roll sleaze of early aughts New York City...” — @jillianluft.bsky.social, author of Scumbag Summer
November 25, 2025 at 9:50 PM
“…pulses with rebellious energy [and] deftly captures music’s gritty world with wit and hope, making this debut a true muse for those who dare to be different.” - @mallorysmart.bsky.social (@maudlinhouse.bsky.social)
Started the morning with Mary Shelley and caffeine strong enough to wake the dead…
November 25, 2025 at 7:35 PM
Started the morning with Mary Shelley and caffeine strong enough to wake the dead…
Alex Moreno came on the show and immediately rewired my brain. Legit one of the most fun conversations this season.
Out Saturday 🎧
Out Saturday 🎧
November 25, 2025 at 7:29 PM
Alex Moreno came on the show and immediately rewired my brain. Legit one of the most fun conversations this season.
Out Saturday 🎧
Out Saturday 🎧
Tonight’s mood is waiting for editors to remember I exist.
November 25, 2025 at 3:34 AM
Tonight’s mood is waiting for editors to remember I exist.
Watched the new PTA film after a full day of baking baklava while my nieces and nephews tried to prove who could lift each other the highest.
My life is chaotic in a very specific indie film way…
My life is chaotic in a very specific indie film way…
November 24, 2025 at 6:13 AM
Watched the new PTA film after a full day of baking baklava while my nieces and nephews tried to prove who could lift each other the highest.
My life is chaotic in a very specific indie film way…
My life is chaotic in a very specific indie film way…
Tonite at The Midnight Realm…
November 24, 2025 at 2:53 AM
Tonite at The Midnight Realm…
It’s still spooky season at The Midnight Realm…
November 22, 2025 at 11:46 PM
It’s still spooky season at The Midnight Realm…
My husband took this 15yrs ago and says it was the night he fell in love with me. I kept feeding the bonfire whatever it wanted.
Fire has always been my identity, so it shouldn’t shock anyone that I made a chapbook about it.
Bonfire Gospel drops from Bone Machine Dec 6th 🔥
Fire has always been my identity, so it shouldn’t shock anyone that I made a chapbook about it.
Bonfire Gospel drops from Bone Machine Dec 6th 🔥
November 22, 2025 at 6:25 PM
My husband took this 15yrs ago and says it was the night he fell in love with me. I kept feeding the bonfire whatever it wanted.
Fire has always been my identity, so it shouldn’t shock anyone that I made a chapbook about it.
Bonfire Gospel drops from Bone Machine Dec 6th 🔥
Fire has always been my identity, so it shouldn’t shock anyone that I made a chapbook about it.
Bonfire Gospel drops from Bone Machine Dec 6th 🔥
Off the Record is live 🎧
Alex Moreno reads from Sticky Time and pairs it with a song that hits the same strange, electric pulse running under their work…
open.spotify.com/episode/1ZWe...
Alex Moreno reads from Sticky Time and pairs it with a song that hits the same strange, electric pulse running under their work…
open.spotify.com/episode/1ZWe...
November 22, 2025 at 3:39 PM
Off the Record is live 🎧
Alex Moreno reads from Sticky Time and pairs it with a song that hits the same strange, electric pulse running under their work…
open.spotify.com/episode/1ZWe...
Alex Moreno reads from Sticky Time and pairs it with a song that hits the same strange, electric pulse running under their work…
open.spotify.com/episode/1ZWe...
The way Starbuck is staring at me for singing Bloody Mary while I write… like I’ve personally shamed the family name.
November 22, 2025 at 2:37 AM
The way Starbuck is staring at me for singing Bloody Mary while I write… like I’ve personally shamed the family name.
Just saw Wicked: For Good. Now I’m home, lights low, brain doing that post-movie floaty thing…
November 22, 2025 at 1:00 AM
Just saw Wicked: For Good. Now I’m home, lights low, brain doing that post-movie floaty thing…
Chill day at The Midnight Realm…
November 20, 2025 at 5:52 PM
Chill day at The Midnight Realm…
My weird short story, I’ll Be Right Back, just got accepted by trampset!
Corporate rot. Slasher vibes. Things go sideways fast.
Runs Dec 5. Psyched.
Corporate rot. Slasher vibes. Things go sideways fast.
Runs Dec 5. Psyched.
November 20, 2025 at 4:48 PM
My weird short story, I’ll Be Right Back, just got accepted by trampset!
Corporate rot. Slasher vibes. Things go sideways fast.
Runs Dec 5. Psyched.
Corporate rot. Slasher vibes. Things go sideways fast.
Runs Dec 5. Psyched.
The Hipster Poetry Vault has opened again.
In 2013 I submitted this exact notepad list to a press.
Zero edits. Zero arc. Pure vibes.
open.substack.com/pub/malsmart...
In 2013 I submitted this exact notepad list to a press.
Zero edits. Zero arc. Pure vibes.
open.substack.com/pub/malsmart...
November 19, 2025 at 5:22 PM
The Hipster Poetry Vault has opened again.
In 2013 I submitted this exact notepad list to a press.
Zero edits. Zero arc. Pure vibes.
open.substack.com/pub/malsmart...
In 2013 I submitted this exact notepad list to a press.
Zero edits. Zero arc. Pure vibes.
open.substack.com/pub/malsmart...
Now I’m watching The Hunger Games and getting hyped for BONFIRE GOSPEL like it’s almost harvest time for Midwest rot.
November 19, 2025 at 12:24 AM
Now I’m watching The Hunger Games and getting hyped for BONFIRE GOSPEL like it’s almost harvest time for Midwest rot.
People say “follow your passion” as if my passion isn’t chaos, caffeine, and writing feral little stories about doomed weirdos…
November 19, 2025 at 12:22 AM
People say “follow your passion” as if my passion isn’t chaos, caffeine, and writing feral little stories about doomed weirdos…
Saturday’s Off the Record has Alex Moreno reading from Sticky Time and dropping the track that nails the vibe.
It’s a good one…🎧
It’s a good one…🎧
November 18, 2025 at 3:30 AM
Saturday’s Off the Record has Alex Moreno reading from Sticky Time and dropping the track that nails the vibe.
It’s a good one…🎧
It’s a good one…🎧
Therapy quote of the whatever…
November 17, 2025 at 6:53 PM
Therapy quote of the whatever…
There’s a piece in BONFIRE GOSPEL where two people argue about whose small-town serial killer had better lore.
If you’re curious, good.
Out for 72 hours starting Dec 6 🔥
If you’re curious, good.
Out for 72 hours starting Dec 6 🔥
November 17, 2025 at 2:29 AM
There’s a piece in BONFIRE GOSPEL where two people argue about whose small-town serial killer had better lore.
If you’re curious, good.
Out for 72 hours starting Dec 6 🔥
If you’re curious, good.
Out for 72 hours starting Dec 6 🔥