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.🔥
Starbuck is done pretending humans deserve her energy…
December 9, 2025 at 12:17 AM
Starbuck is done pretending humans deserve her energy…
Hot cocoa is cute. This is pagan.
December 8, 2025 at 12:28 AM
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
After that, only smoke and regret…🔥
bonemachineinc.neocities.org
December 7, 2025 at 10:29 PM
It’s the Final Countdown. 24 hours left to get Bonfire Gospel.
After that, only smoke and regret…🔥
bonemachineinc.neocities.org
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
Printers Row was the first. Now Bonfire Gospel is out through the 8th.
bonemachineinc.neocities.org
December 7, 2025 at 4:11 PM
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
Printers Row was the first. Now Bonfire Gospel is out through the 8th.
bonemachineinc.neocities.org
December 7, 2025 at 5:33 AM
Chicago let me preach the Bonfire Gospel tonight.
You’ve got 72 hours before this thing disappears 🔥
Grab it: bonemachineinc.neocities.org
You’ve got 72 hours before this thing disappears 🔥
Grab it: bonemachineinc.neocities.org
December 7, 2025 at 4:55 AM
Chicago let me preach the Bonfire Gospel tonight.
You’ve got 72 hours before this thing disappears 🔥
Grab it: bonemachineinc.neocities.org
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
Available now from Bone Machine🎄🔥
bonemachineinc.neocities.org
December 6, 2025 at 6:02 PM
Starbuck has spoken. Bonfire Gospel belongs under every tree this year.
Available now from Bone Machine🎄🔥
bonemachineinc.neocities.org
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...
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...
December 6, 2025 at 5:26 PM
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...
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’
December 6, 2025 at 6:36 AM
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
Bonfire Gospel. Available now.
Burn window: 72 hours🔥
bonemachineinc.neocities.org
December 6, 2025 at 5:10 AM
Demogorgons. Cornfields. Trauma. The solution is always fire or wine.
Bonfire Gospel. Available now.
Burn window: 72 hours🔥
bonemachineinc.neocities.org
Bonfire Gospel. Available now.
Burn window: 72 hours🔥
bonemachineinc.neocities.org
From Bonfire Gospel — coming December 6 from Bone Machine...🔥
December 5, 2025 at 11:12 PM
From Bonfire Gospel — coming December 6 from Bone Machine...🔥
Raise your hand if you've ever felt personally victimized by Spotify…
December 5, 2025 at 5:44 PM
Raise your hand if you've ever felt personally victimized by Spotify…
Reposted by Mallory Smart
"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...
@mallorysmart.bsky.social's "I'll Be Right Back"
trampset.org/ill-be-right...
I’ll Be Right Back
by Mallory Smart
trampset.org
December 5, 2025 at 4:18 PM
"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...
@mallorysmart.bsky.social's "I'll Be Right Back"
trampset.org/ill-be-right...
2 years in a row…😅
December 5, 2025 at 5:41 PM
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...
My new story I’ll Be Right Back is live in trampset.
trampset.org/ill-be-right...
December 5, 2025 at 2:43 PM
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...
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...
December 5, 2025 at 6:14 AM
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.
December 5, 2025 at 2:51 AM
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.
December 5, 2025 at 12:37 AM
Trying to figure out the writer version of the Irish goodbye.
From Bonfire Gospel — coming December 6 from Bone Machine...🔥
December 5, 2025 at 12:11 AM
From Bonfire Gospel — coming December 6 from Bone Machine...🔥
Sleep keeps showing me a life that feels like the truth, and I hate how much I recognize it...
malsmart.substack.com/p/dreams-bra...
malsmart.substack.com/p/dreams-bra...
December 4, 2025 at 8:25 PM
Sleep keeps showing me a life that feels like the truth, and I hate how much I recognize it...
malsmart.substack.com/p/dreams-bra...
malsmart.substack.com/p/dreams-bra...
From Bonfire Gospel — coming December 6 from Bone Machine...🔥
December 4, 2025 at 12:36 AM
From Bonfire Gospel — coming December 6 from Bone Machine...🔥
From Bonfire Gospel — coming December 6 from Bone Machine...🔥
December 3, 2025 at 12:27 AM
From Bonfire Gospel — coming December 6 from Bone Machine...🔥
The blizzard said disaster. My inbox said plot twist.
December 2, 2025 at 6:03 AM
The blizzard said disaster. My inbox said plot twist.
Dreams gone feral. Words with teeth. A song that knows it.
Krystle Ratticus on Off The Record this Saturday…🎧
Krystle Ratticus on Off The Record this Saturday…🎧
December 2, 2025 at 3:19 AM
Dreams gone feral. Words with teeth. A song that knows it.
Krystle Ratticus on Off The Record this Saturday…🎧
Krystle Ratticus on Off The Record this Saturday…🎧
If you didn’t grow up terrified of the local folklore guy, congrats on your stable childhood.
December 2, 2025 at 3:10 AM
If you didn’t grow up terrified of the local folklore guy, congrats on your stable childhood.