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/
Today at The Midnight Realm…
December 14, 2025 at 5:20 PM
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.
December 14, 2025 at 4:44 AM
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...
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...
December 13, 2025 at 7:09 PM
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...
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...
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...
December 13, 2025 at 4:06 PM
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...
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...
malsmart.substack.com/p/i-called-i...
December 12, 2025 at 11:24 PM
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...
malsmart.substack.com/p/i-called-i...
What’s your death song? Be honest. Krystle and I have answers.
New Textual Healing this Saturday 🎧
New Textual Healing this Saturday 🎧
December 10, 2025 at 6:11 PM
What’s your death song? Be honest. Krystle and I have answers.
New Textual Healing this Saturday 🎧
New Textual Healing this Saturday 🎧
I’m at a coffee shop pretending I’m a person who has their shit together…
December 9, 2025 at 3:37 PM
I’m at a coffee shop pretending I’m a person who has their shit together…
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...
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…
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...
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...🔥