Matt Whitt
LightNews LightNews
mrwhitt.bsky.social
Matt Whitt
@mrwhitt.bsky.social
960 followers 1K following 42 posts
Fledgling lgbtq writer of strange fiction. Lover and reader of all things surreal. #amquerying for my debut novel, STAY.

77/75 📚
Posts Replies Media Videos
mrwhitt.bsky.social
“Time slips and I’m back at the factory, spinning caps on bottles at thirty a minute…”

My new short with @streetlightmag.bsky.social — a dark, rhythmic look at survival and the blur of the daily grind. Read here: streetlightmag.com/2025/07/18/h...

#fiction #horrorwriters #writersky #shortstories
HWY 20 at 30 Bottles a Minute by M. R. Whitt | Streetlight Magazine
HWY 20 at 30 Bottles a Minute by M. R. Whitt
streetlightmag.com
August 14, 2025 at 11:14 PM
Reposted by Matt Whitt
adubbs.bsky.social
Looking for a new cozy witchy switch game to play after Strange Horticulture and Wytchwood. Send me some recs 🎮 #gaming
December 10, 2024 at 3:31 PM
mrwhitt.bsky.social
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. 20/20.

#books #BookSky💙📚 #BookChallenge #bookrecommendations
Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes cover art
December 7, 2024 at 9:26 PM
mrwhitt.bsky.social
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. 19/20.

#books #BookSky💙📚 #BookChallenge #bookrecommendations
Annihilation by Jeff Vandermeer cover art
December 6, 2024 at 3:22 PM
mrwhitt.bsky.social
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. 18/20.

#books #BookSky💙📚 #BookChallenge #bookrecommendations
Eye of the World by Robert Jordan cover art
December 5, 2024 at 5:18 PM
mrwhitt.bsky.social
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. 17/20.

#books #BookSky💙📚 #BookChallenge #bookrecommendations
A princess of Mars by Edgar rice Burroughs cover art
December 4, 2024 at 2:02 PM
mrwhitt.bsky.social
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. 16/20.

#books #BookSky💙📚 #BookChallenge #bookrecommendations
Fafhrd and the gray mouser cover art
December 3, 2024 at 11:01 AM
mrwhitt.bsky.social
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. 15/20.

#books #BookSky💙📚 #BookChallenge #bookrecommendations
The ocean at the end of the lane by Neil Gaiman
December 2, 2024 at 12:33 PM
mrwhitt.bsky.social
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. 14/20.

#books #BookSky💙📚 #BookChallenge #bookrecommendations
The Sword of Shannara by Terry Brooks - cover art
December 1, 2024 at 7:47 PM
mrwhitt.bsky.social
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. 13/20.

#books #BookSky💙📚 #BookChallenge #bookrecommendations
Underworld by Don DeLillo - cover art
November 30, 2024 at 3:20 PM
mrwhitt.bsky.social
I’m probably the only one here who’s actually read this book. It’s notorious for being long and boring and in that respect it did not disappoint! That said, it was interesting to read one of science fiction’s earliest epics.

#BookReviews #ScienceFiction 📚💙

app.thestorygraph.com/reviews/50f6...
Review by mattrwh - The Night Land
Long, flat, boring, and aggressively patriarchal at times, but i don’t think I’ve ever read an...
app.thestorygraph.com
November 29, 2024 at 4:36 PM
mrwhitt.bsky.social
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. 12/20.

#books #BookSky💙📚 #BookChallenge #bookrecommendations
The Shadow of the Torturer, Gene Wolfe - cover art
November 29, 2024 at 3:38 PM
mrwhitt.bsky.social
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. 11/20.

#books #BookSky💙📚 #BookChallenge #bookrecommendations
Where the red fern grows by Wilson Rawls - cover art
November 28, 2024 at 2:59 PM
mrwhitt.bsky.social
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. 10/20.

#books #BookSky💙📚 #BookChallenge #bookrecommendations
A Separate Peace by John Knowles - cover art
November 27, 2024 at 1:22 PM
mrwhitt.bsky.social
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. 9/20.

#books #BookSky💙📚 #BookChallenge #bookrecommendations
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami - Cover Art
November 26, 2024 at 4:48 PM
Reposted by Matt Whitt
karma-chaos.bsky.social
When I open them, most of the books have the smell of an earlier time leaking out between the pages - a special odor of the knowledge & emotions that for ages have been calmly resting between the covers. Breathing it in, I glance through a few pages before returning each book to its shelf.

Murakami
November 26, 2024 at 11:46 AM
mrwhitt.bsky.social
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. 8/20.

#books #BookSky💙📚 #BookChallenge #bookrecommendations
November 25, 2024 at 12:04 PM
mrwhitt.bsky.social
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. 7/20.

#books #BookSky💙📚 #BookChallenge #bookrecommendations
Cover for Ishmael by Daniel Quinn
November 24, 2024 at 10:35 PM
mrwhitt.bsky.social
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. 6/20.

#books #BookSky💙📚 #BookChallenge #bookrecommendations
Cover of John Steinbecks’s Cannery Row
November 23, 2024 at 3:19 PM
Reposted by Matt Whitt
birdobserver.bsky.social
I've been thinking about this poem by Langston Hughes recently and although it was published in 1931, it remains relevant as ever.

#books #reading #booksky #poetry
A poem by Langston Hughes titled "Tired". It reads as the following: "I am so tired of waiting, Aren't you, For the world to become good And beautiful and kind? Let us take a knife And cut the world in two -- And see what worms are eating At the rind."
November 20, 2024 at 3:34 AM
Reposted by Matt Whitt
beingreese.bsky.social
Audiobooks count as reading.
Audiobooks count as reading.
Audiobooks count as reading.
Audiobooks count as reading.
Audiobooks count as reading.
Audiobooks count as reading.
Audiobooks count as reading.
November 22, 2024 at 12:35 PM
Reposted by Matt Whitt
thestevenlachance.bsky.social
Right?
#HorrorWritersChat 💙📚
November 22, 2024 at 8:26 PM
Reposted by Matt Whitt
dassawrites.bsky.social
Two days late to this, but it's fine!
Hi, I'm Hadassah! I write gothic horror, historical horror, and dark fantasy -- I love to write horror because I have a fondness for the macabre and unsettling, and because horror is simply very fun to write.
🖤
#HorrorWritersChat
chaoticauthor.online Matt Mason - One Chaotic Author @chaoticauthor.online · Nov 20
#HorrorWritersChat question 1:

Introduce yourself! Tell us who you are, what you write, and as 15th was "I love to write day" tell us why you love to write horror.

P.S. Don’t forget to include the tag when quote posting!
Image shows creepy figures behind a curtain. All text is in the post.
November 22, 2024 at 6:10 PM
Reposted by Matt Whitt
markcsadler.bsky.social
Somehow I missed this when it was published in 2021. There’s plenty of great writers here, along with names I’ve heard about but haven’t read. Looking forward to reading it this weekend. #horror #horrorfiction #horrorwriters #ellendatlow #shirleyjackson
Pictured is the anthology When Things Get Dark, Edited by Ellen Datlow. The anthology features stories inspired by Shirley Jackson.
November 22, 2024 at 7:05 PM