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Mallory Smart

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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 · 13h

Tonite at The Midnight Realm…

Mallory Smart @mallorysmart.bsky.social · 1d

Can you guess what movie we’re about to talk about today on That Horrorcast?

Mallory Smart @mallorysmart.bsky.social · 1d

I spend my nights writing horror in an office that could host a séance…

Mallory Smart @mallorysmart.bsky.social · 1d

Tonite at The Midnight Realm…

Mallory Smart @mallorysmart.bsky.social · 1d

Just got the flu and covid vaccines. Time to test their limits with tequila and bad 80s horror…

Mallory Smart @mallorysmart.bsky.social · 1d

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...🎧

Mallory Smart @mallorysmart.bsky.social · 2d

Pumpkin spice and existential dread 🪦

Mallory Smart @mallorysmart.bsky.social · 2d

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

Mallory Smart @mallorysmart.bsky.social · 3d

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…

Mallory Smart @mallorysmart.bsky.social · 3d

I don’t trust mornings but I trusted this one.

Writers. Donuts. Titty committees.

Morning, Fuckers is live ☕️

open.substack.com/pub/zonamote...

Mallory Smart @mallorysmart.bsky.social · 4d

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…

Mallory Smart @mallorysmart.bsky.social · 4d

It’s a “Carnival of Souls” at The Midnight Realm tonite…

Mallory Smart @mallorysmart.bsky.social · 5d

Almost midnight. 8 hours of Ed Gein, some writing, and then an hour of Stevie Nicks. The vibes are confusing and perfect…

Mallory Smart @mallorysmart.bsky.social · 5d

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.

Mallory Smart @mallorysmart.bsky.social · 5d

For the next 8hrs at The Midnight Realm…

Mallory Smart @mallorysmart.bsky.social · 6d

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…

ghostparachute.com/issue/may-20...

Mallory Smart @mallorysmart.bsky.social · 6d

Settled in with Halloween candy, my lazy hoodie with the broken zipper, and Monster: The Ed Gein Story.

Starbuck thinks I need help…

Mallory Smart @mallorysmart.bsky.social · 6d

Spooky season again. Time to feed the devil and sign Black Phillip’s book…

Mallory Smart @mallorysmart.bsky.social · 6d

2016 vs 2025

Reposted by Mallory Smart

Ben Niespodziany 📚🎪 @neonpajamas.bsky.social · 7d

Chicago readings remain unrivaled

Hype for both of these

(and another Neon Night Mic on Nov. 5)

poetry reading at Foster Ave Beach, October 27 at 7:00pm

book launch reading & chili cook off with live music on Nov. 1, from 8:00pm to 10:00pm at Hammy Wammy in Uptown

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Mallory Smart @mallorysmart.bsky.social · 7d

Just finished writing something I’ve been deep in for months.

It felt like dragging a body through a cornfield at night, exhausting but worth it…

Mallory Smart @mallorysmart.bsky.social · 7d

One story away from finishing my collection and I just wrote my first poem in years.

Damn fine morning, indeed…

Mallory Smart @mallorysmart.bsky.social · 8d

Poetry, but make it beach goth. Foster Ave Beach, Oct 27. It’ll be like a séance but with lake effect wind...

Mallory Smart @mallorysmart.bsky.social · 9d

One of the Dave stories was nominated for Best of the Net. “Ask Me Something” on JAKE.

Thanks for proving I’m not just screaming into the void…🖤

Reposted by Mallory Smart

JAKE @publishedbyjake.bsky.social · 9d

& "The AUDACITY of the Young" by Sara Vernekar

For Fiction:

"Ask Me Something" by @mallorysmart.bsky.social
"Eduardo" by @martinezfjulian.bsky.social

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