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C. Matthew Smith @cmattwrite.bsky.social · 11h

Thanks, Gabino! What’s a struggling rideshare driver to do when his sister owes money to some really bad men? Drive criminals and their wares around the city of Atlanta for extra cash, of course. What could go wrong? Everything.

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The Ones in the Corner

When struggling rideshare driver Ben Duffy learns his sister has defaulted on a debt owed to dangerous men, he reluctantly takes a second job driving criminals and their cargo around Atlanta. Soon eno...

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C. Matthew Smith @cmattwrite.bsky.social · 12h

Hell of a deal on a hell of a novel, y’all.

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C. Matthew Smith @cmattwrite.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

“Already Dave’s grief was charging the room, changing the feeling in it. Being beside him was like being next to a spitting power line.”

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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.

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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 · 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.”

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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.”

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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 · 04/09/2026

Hey, thanks so much, Andrew! I hope the rest lives up.

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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.”

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C. Matthew Smith @cmattwrite.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

The most important voice of my childhood, save (maybe) those of my parents.

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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…

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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 · 17/08/2026

That’s a lot of people to be judging, Nessie. Save your energy.

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C. Matthew Smith @cmattwrite.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

So different from everything else he did.

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C. Matthew Smith @cmattwrite.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Tonight’s viewing. A generous and altogether lovely film.

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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 · 06/08/2026

Slot canyon in Utah. Unlike anything I’ve seen before.

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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.

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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 · 30/07/2026

Love his early films. And I didn’t hate this one. I just felt…nothing.

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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.

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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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