Matt Whitt

HWY 20 at 30 Bottles a Minute by M. R. Whitt | Streetlight Magazine HWY 20 at 30 Bottles a Minute by M. R. Whitt

“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...

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Looking for a new cozy witchy switch game to play after Strange Horticulture and Wytchwood. Send me some recs 🎮 #gaming

Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes cover art

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.

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Annihilation by Jeff Vandermeer cover art

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.

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Eye of the World by Robert Jordan cover art

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.

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A princess of Mars by Edgar rice Burroughs cover art

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.

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Fafhrd and the gray mouser cover art

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The ocean at the end of the lane by Neil Gaiman

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.

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The Sword of Shannara by Terry Brooks - cover art

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Underworld by Don DeLillo - cover art

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Agreed, and I appreciate that he used prose to show the evolution of language over time. He did the same with The Boats of the Glenn Carrig, which I liked, but it’s a shorter story. The narrative style at that prose for that many pages in The Night Land was just too much, but I do love its weirdness

Review by mattrwh - The Night Land Long, flat, boring, and aggressively patriarchal at times, but i don’t think I’ve ever read an...

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.

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The Shadow of the Torturer, Gene Wolfe - cover art

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Where the red fern grows by Wilson Rawls - cover art

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A Separate Peace by John Knowles - cover art

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The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami - Cover Art

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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

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.

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Cover for Ishmael by Daniel Quinn

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It’s been 20 years now, but I remember liking its atmosphere and quirkiness, the feeling of being in the weeds of a foggy port town during the great depression. Definitely a vibe

Cover of John Steinbecks’s Cannery Row

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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."

I've been thinking about this poem by Langston Hughes recently and although it was published in 1931, it remains relevant as ever.

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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.

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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.
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Pictured is the anthology When Things Get Dark, Edited by Ellen Datlow. The anthology features stories inspired by Shirley Jackson.

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

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. 5/20.

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The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood

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The House on the Borderland by William Hope Hodgson The House on the Borderland is a supernatural horror novel by British fantasist William Hope Hodg...

Crushing my tbr this week! Hodgson is fast becoming one of my favorite early 20th century weird horror authors (Glen Carrig was great and The Night Lands, so far, has been a trip)

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