The scariest thing about Misery is knowing I’ll never have fans unhinged enough to kidnap me. Humbling…

New Textual Healing just dropped. Mike Corrao doing his thing…🎧 open.spotify.com/episode/6Cju...

The week between Christmas and New Year’s should be treated like international waters. No laws apply…

five albums, five stories. happy holidays, kids! feat. stories by @mallorysmart.bsky.social, @aaronburch.bsky.social, Daniel O. Bailey, @parkeryoung.bsky.social, @badguybirnie.bsky.social www.major7mag.com/post/friday-...

Merry Christmas. May your family be tolerable, your drinks be strong, and your inner monologue be festive.

Early Christmas gifts at the Midnight Realm…

Off the Record this Saturday with Mike Corrao reading from Being Towards Death…🎧

At night my thoughts get very sincere about things that don’t matter…

Closing out the year with a Dave story. “Munger Road” is about Midwest urban legends and the dead still texting like nothing happened. Published by Little Engines. open.substack.com/pub/littleen...

“One of them screamed ‘FUCK THE PATRIARCHY’ with the intensity of a kid whose TikTok had fused to her spine.” Hobart’s Rejected Modern Love... www.hobartpulp.com/web_features...

There’s something off about seeing an airport in Die Hard 2 that isn’t already braced for disaster.

Tonite at The Midnight Realm…

Sam Berman: My Biggest Sin open.spotify.com/episode/5AtE...

Welcome to that time of year where nobody’s doing great but we’re all being very polite about it.

Good morning to everyone trying to convince themselves today will be the day they get their shit together…

End of year housekeeping: if you listen to Textual Healing and haven’t rated it yet, this is the moment. open.spotify.com/show/5wO60jF...

It’s December so I’ll say it again: Christmas Evil is a perfect Christmas movie…

Sam Berman on sitting with a single word until it ruins you…🎧

Sam Berman on Textual Healing talking about writing, pride, and how easy it is to lie to yourself. New episode Saturday…🎧

Every group chat has at least one message that quietly ruins the rest of the day. Unfortunately, I’m in that chat right now.

If you didn’t clock that the Welcome to Derry finale was about to go fully off the rails when it was titled “Winter Fire,” that’s on you. Messy. Emotional. Unhinged. A proper King ending…

Today at The Midnight Realm…

It’s 3 degrees out and I’m drinking warm mead instead of hot chocolate while watching Mad Men. At some point this became adulthood.

Dispatch from Tangible Books in Bridgeport. Ex-punks, open mic chaos, serial killer small talk, trumpet poetry, and a bookstore built by hand. Chicago lit refuses extinction. Unicorn Zombies forever…🐐 open.substack.com/pub/zonamote...

New Textual Healing just dropped…🎧 Krystle Ratticus on being the weirdo du jour, staying feral in public, and why leaning into your oddities is the only sane move left. open.spotify.com/episode/4duy...

I wrote an essay about ambition, obedience, and growing up Midwestern. It starts with a bad short story I wrote at 23 and ends with me realizing it still hit... malsmart.substack.com/p/i-called-i...

Damn. Apparently my family actually reads my social media posts. Great for them. Devastating for my unfiltered self...

"She’s smart and self-aware and dresses like she’s permanently one playlist away from an emotional revelation. I can only assume the consultants stalked her social media. (They absolutely did.)" @mallorysmart.bsky.social in @trampset.bsky.social trampset.org/ill-be-right...

What’s your death song? Be honest. Krystle and I have answers. New Textual Healing this Saturday 🎧

I’m at a coffee shop pretending I’m a person who has their shit together…

Night shifts from productive to unhinged real quick…

Starbuck is done pretending humans deserve her energy…

Hot cocoa is cute. This is pagan.

It’s the Final Countdown. 24 hours left to get Bonfire Gospel. After that, only smoke and regret…🔥 bonemachineinc.neocities.org

Literary lore. I did a reading at KGB Bar, met Scott, and we ended up drinking at the Tim Burton bar across the street. That was the night we decided to start making things together. Printers Row was the first. Now Bonfire Gospel is out through the 8th. bonemachineinc.neocities.org

Bonfire Gospel is burning now. 48 hours left to join the fire. 🔥 bonemachineinc.neocities.org

Chicago let me preach the Bonfire Gospel tonight. You’ve got 72 hours before this thing disappears 🔥 Grab it: bonemachineinc.neocities.org

Starbuck has spoken. Bonfire Gospel belongs under every tree this year. Available now from Bone Machine🎄🔥 bonemachineinc.neocities.org

Off The Record with Krystle Ratticus is now live. She reads an excerpt and gives the song that belongs with it. Love it? Next week we go full chaos and talk about which song we’d want playing when we die…🎧 open.spotify.com/episode/3xtV...

Nighttime is when my brain finally clocks in like ‘okay let’s be unhinged now’

Demogorgons. Cornfields. Trauma. The solution is always fire or wine. Bonfire Gospel. Available now. Burn window: 72 hours🔥 bonemachineinc.neocities.org

From Bonfire Gospel — coming December 6 from Bone Machine...🔥

Raise your hand if you've ever felt personally victimized by Spotify…

"On Friday, the company schedules this “optional” team building thing called SURVIVING THE GRIND: A SLASHER-BASED APPROACH TO CORPORATE COHESION." @mallorysmart.bsky.social's "I'll Be Right Back" trampset.org/ill-be-right...

2 years in a row…😅

This company decided my role was ‘die for narrative cohesion.’ My new story I’ll Be Right Back is live in trampset. trampset.org/ill-be-right...

Annual reminder that my father was the original Clark Griswold. Consider this my origin story...

Real talk: the words “I’m not upset, I'm disappointed” have way more power over me than any demon ever could.

Trying to figure out the writer version of the Irish goodbye.

From Bonfire Gospel — coming December 6 from Bone Machine...🔥