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C. Matthew Smith

@cmattwrite.bsky.social
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Old with wandering. Probably sore from it, too. Author of TWENTYMILE (“taut, page-turning”—Atlanta Journal-Constitution). THE ONES IN THE CORNER out June 17, 2026 from Winding Road Stories. www.cmattsmithwrites.com.

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NE Ohio Regional Sewer District @neorsd.org · 29/09/2026
bold and wildly inexplicable photo choice here
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C. Matthew Smith @cmattwrite.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Having just finished two seasons, and it being nearly Halloween, may I humbly recommend The Terror to y’all? Season One is a stone-cold masterpiece. Season Two might be a little disjointed at times, but it’s unnerving, thematically richer than its predecessor, and even more emotionally engaging.
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C. Matthew Smith @cmattwrite.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Folks, if you love gothic horror fiction, you can’t do better than HAIL HOLY QUEENS by Chris McGinley. A skillfully written tale of a convent of nuns who battle a horde of demonic creatures, becoming their fully realized, ass-kicking selves in the process. Tense, funny, and gory in equal measure.
Cover of HAIL HOLY QUEENS
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C. Matthew Smith @cmattwrite.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
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Shaun Of The Dead Simon Pegg Zombie Walk
Alt: Shaun Of The Dead Simon Pegg Zombie Walk
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C. Matthew Smith @cmattwrite.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Watching old Schitts Creek episodes and am reminded yet again that the world needs a spinoff series of all of Alexis Rose’s international misadventures.
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C. Matthew Smith @cmattwrite.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
“This guy, it was fair to say, was deader than a Texas salad bar.”
Ron Currie’s novel WE WILL SEE YOU BLEED
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C. Matthew Smith @cmattwrite.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
You heard the man.
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C. Matthew Smith @cmattwrite.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
How your latest email finds me.
Joe Pesci in Goodfellas, about to be whacked.
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C. Matthew Smith @cmattwrite.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Big. Fuckin. Baby.
nbcnews.com
Trump’s handpicked Kennedy Center board votes to immediately close venue for renovations
The board found the structure of the main building is “unsafe” and “hazardous.”
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C. Matthew Smith @cmattwrite.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
“What was the .purpose of getting upset at life’s fickle randomness? You sure weren’t going to change anything. Have a drink, have a laugh. Watch the clown show.”
Ron Currie’s novel WE WILL SEE YOU BLEED
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C. Matthew Smith @cmattwrite.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
“Each one of us is trapped in our own skull, alone at the center of all creation. Even when we’re with those we love. All we can really do is decide to love them anyway, even if we have no clue who they are.”
Ron Currie’s novel WE WILL SEE YOU BLEED
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C. Matthew Smith @cmattwrite.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
You can keep your pick-sixes. Yawn. Give me that tip-pick-fumble-six all day long. #GoDawgs
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C. Matthew Smith @cmattwrite.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Chauncey Bowens and Nate Frazier are starting to remind me of Nick Chubb and Todd Gurley. Best 1-2 punch we’ve had at RB in years.
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Uga the Georgia Bulldogs Mascot Waves Flag
ALT: Uga the Georgia Bulldogs Mascot Waves Flag
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C. Matthew Smith @cmattwrite.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
“The poet, his window, and his poems are creatures of the shore that the river gnaws, dissolves, and carries away. He is a tree of a sort, rooted in the dark, aspiring to the light, dependent on both.”
The great poet Wendell Berry, leaning against the bed of a truck with a dog in the background.
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C. Matthew Smith @cmattwrite.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
“To multiply the years and divide by the will to live is a kind of false accounting. We’ll keep track of this little rill, of tying on fresh tippet and the tufty fly, and we’ll blow on it for luck. Of this cast and the next. And if we ourselves are lucky, it will add up to nightfall.”
Peter Heller’s THE DOG STARS
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C. Matthew Smith @cmattwrite.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Southern California friends! This is an event I’d not miss if I were you.
skylightbooks.com
Jonathan Ames w/ Jerry Stahl, "A Past Without Pictures"
Independent bookstore in Los Angeles, featuring fiction, nonfiction, arts, and children's books.
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C. Matthew Smith @cmattwrite.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Dolly went before that motherfucker? The universe is a cold and uncaring place.
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The Onion @theonion.com · 24/08/2026
Guy Who Sucks At Being A Person Sees Huge Potential In AI theonion.com/guy-who-sucks-at-being…
Guy Who Sucks At Being A Person Sees Huge Potential In AI
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C. Matthew Smith @cmattwrite.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Nope. Fuck this.
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Rock and a Hard Place @rhppress.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
MARY THORSON ON THE WRITER'S DOSSIER: Listen to @marythor.bsky.social talk with @jeffcircle.bsky.social about her story collection A WOMAN'S GUIDE TO TRUE CRIME, available now from RHP Press. Listen to the show here: bit.ly/4rt9gwl and order your the book here: bit.ly/4r1u8KU
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C.B. Bernard @cbbernard.com · 17/08/2026
Nessie is judging you because you haven't read @cmattwrite.bsky.social's new novel, THE ONES IN THE CORNER. Now's your chance to remedy that situation. Order it alongside his last novel, TWENTYMILE, and get back in her good graces. bookshop.org/p/books/the-...
The best dog --- a white English cream retriever named Nessie --- poses accusingly with C. Matt Smith's excellent crime novel, THE ONES IN THE CORNER, judging you for not reading it.
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C. Matthew Smith @cmattwrite.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Tonight’s viewing. A generous and altogether lovely film.
“The Straight Story”
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C. Matthew Smith @cmattwrite.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
But why?
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C. Matthew Smith @cmattwrite.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
Navajo Nation and Lower Antelope Canyon.
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C. Matthew Smith @cmattwrite.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Oh, word?
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C. Matthew Smith @cmattwrite.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Slot canyon in Utah. Unlike anything I’ve seen before.
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C. Matthew Smith @cmattwrite.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
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C. Matthew Smith @cmattwrite.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
May thanks to one of my favorite working writers, @writerstevens.bsky.social, for this attentive review of THE ONES IN THE CORNER.
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C. Matthew Smith, “The Ones in the Corner”
About mid-way through The Ones in the Corner, a character named Mr. Friendly is explaining to our struggling hero Ben Duffy what happened the previous night when the car he was driving—and this is …
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C. Matthew Smith @cmattwrite.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
Meanwhile this poor guy has spent tens of thousands of dollars on lawyers he’ll never get back. All thanks to one man’s bruised ego and DOJ lackeys who can’t say no to him.
abcnews.com
DOJ dropping Reflecting Pool vandalism case against Olympian David Hearn, citing 'flawed' work by contractor
The Justice Department moved to dismiss the criminal case against Olympian David Hearn.
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C. Matthew Smith @cmattwrite.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
“Marie had told me that the average lifespan for a man on our rez was just forty-seven years, compared to seventy-five just across the border in Todd County. I wondered if Natives burned faster and brighter, our lives arcing across a span that we couldn’t see and could only dimly comprehend.”
Cover of David Heska Wanbli Weiden’s novel WISDOM CORNER
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C. Matthew Smith @cmattwrite.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Over the past few days, I’ve discovered that it’s possible to be highly, highly impressed by a film’s craft and yet feel absolutely nothing after leaving the theater. No thoughts or ideas that linger in my head. No particular character or moment I keep coming back to. Strange.
Poster for “The Odyssey”
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C. Matthew Smith @cmattwrite.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
“The Odyssey” translator Emily Wilson didn’t care for Nolan’s adaptation. Here she is going in for the kill. This shall, henceforth, be the primary metric by which I judge films.
“There are no sex scenes, and all the food looks horrible.”
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C. Matthew Smith @cmattwrite.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
Alright, @curtisippolito.bsky.social, let’s do this.
Curtis’s novel WAVES OF BURDEN
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C. Matthew Smith @cmattwrite.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
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Spice Girls Wannabe Music Video
Alt: Spice Girls Wannabe Music Video
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C. Matthew Smith @cmattwrite.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Can we retire the term “maxxing” already? Surely we’ve had enough of that nonsense.
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C. Matthew Smith @cmattwrite.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
(a) No, you fucking don’t. OG doesn’t get down like that. (b) Maybe—just maybe—bowls of pasta and a right fundamental to our republic aren’t remotely the same thing?
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C. Matthew Smith @cmattwrite.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
Awfully cool of Taco Bell to stand up and take the hit. They can admit to causing explosive diarrhea and we’ll all go, “Well, yeah.”
cnbc.com
Taco Bell says it has removed lettuce linked to cyclosporiasis outbreak from its restaurants
Taco Bell, which the CDC linked to the cyclosporiasis outbreak, will likely recover soon from the health safety scare, according to analysts.
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C. Matthew Smith @cmattwrite.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Didier Deschamps has got to be the most French name the world has ever known. Thomas Pynchon could never.
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huck mason @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
RIP
Sam Neill on why 'The Piano' (1993) is an important movie in cinema history: 

"I don't think I can overestimate how important 'The Paino' is for me in hindsight. it sits on my funny old CV like a medal on my chest. It wasn't my film. It Jane Campion's. I wasn't the star of the film. That was Holly Hunter. But there is honour to be found in the second fiddle. Or fopurth. No one notices you much, you don't get nominated for things. But you served. I was there in an important feminist film. I was there on the front line in an important New Zealand film. Neither of those labels does the film justice. It's a work of art. And look, that tiny little figure in the fabric—see down there on the right—that's me. It's a film that will always have a place in cinema history. And I served in it."

("Did I ever Tell You This: A Memeoir", Sam Neill)
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Winding Road Stories @wrdstories.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
Welcome to the WRDS family @erik-hanson.bsky.social!
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C. Matthew Smith @cmattwrite.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
From some truly insane horror movies to the biggest blockbusters, and even that ‘80s miniseries “Amerika” that only a handful of us probably remember, Sam Neill was never less than great. RIP.
bbc.com
Sam Neill, Jurassic Park and Peaky Blinders actor, dies aged 78
The New Zealand actor, who was born in Northern Ireland, died in Sydney. He had recovered from cancer and "the loss was sudden and unexpected", his family says.
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C. Matthew Smith @cmattwrite.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
I’m sorry, is Mads Mikkelsen coaching the Swiss team?
Murat Yakin looking an awful lot like Mads.
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C. Matthew Smith @cmattwrite.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
I love it when a soccer match pauses because a penalty has been called and players for each team start arguing with each other about whether it really was a foul. As though they’re ever going to reach consensus or it would even matter if they did.
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C. Matthew Smith @cmattwrite.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
Get in, losers. We’re going book signing.
Stack of THE ONES IN THE CORNER on a table at the Newnan Book Co.
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C. Matthew Smith @cmattwrite.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
South metro Atlanta friends! You can find me signing books at Newnan Book Co on Friday July 10 from 4-6pm.
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C. Matthew Smith @cmattwrite.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
I forget - what’s it called when the government involves itself in the means of production?
usatoday.com
White House launches 25 Freedom Fuel gas stations in this region
The White House launched gas stations, it announced on July 7, but the prices aren't much lower than the national average. See where they're located.
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FLAVOR FLAV ⏰ @flavorflav.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
Man of my word,,, imma making sure the WHOLE women’s hockey team gets to go celebrate their championship together at the ESPYs,,, vote for them for Team of the Year here www.espn.com/espys/story/...
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C. Matthew Smith @cmattwrite.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
This “Weekend at Bernie’s” reboot looks so dumb.
apnews.com
Sen. McConnell is 'continuing his recovery,' but details are scarce after a lengthy hospital stay
Staff for Kentucky Sen. Mitch McConnell has said that the senator is “continuing his recovery” in a hospital while the Senate is out of session.
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C. Matthew Smith @cmattwrite.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
But I thought embracing AI was the only way people were going to be employable.
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Kathryn Brightbill ✒️ @kebrightbill.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
Florida folks: If you have O- blood and are of African or African American descent, OneBlood is searching for donors who have a rare antigen that matches with a teenager with sickle cell disease who needs 50 units of blood so she can have a bone marrow transplant.
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Rare blood needed to save life of Florida teen needing bone marrow transplant
FT. LAUDERDALE, Fla. (WFLA)— Blood donors of African descent are needed to save the life of a Florida 18-year-old fighting an aggressive form of sickle cell disease, OneBlood announced. Gigi Felix,…
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