Tag Archives: Matt Mitchell

Poemotion, A Poem

By Matt Mitchell | Published: November 14, 2009
In which Matt shoots poetry in the face with a stun gun. Poemotion Lost treasure, undersea, Lost love between you and me. Power and poise, tooth and nail, Hammer voice, roulette don’t fail. Glamorize the city, drive in the fast lane, Going down under, death by cocaine. Sing in rot gut, late night fights, Bad boy rhythm, full moon nights. Under [...]
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A Man Sans Soul

By Matt Mitchell | Published: November 9, 2009
Here’s a treat: the rights for this story were purchased by “The Mount Zion Review,” but the magazine folded within weeks of the release of the issue with my story in it. So, rather than try to sell it again, I’m going to publish it here, for all to enjoy. This is a story about a [...]
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A Scent of Rain

By Matt Mitchell | Published: November 2, 2009
“A Scent of Rain” was a featured story in Southern Fried Weirdness 2007: An Annual Anthology of Southern Speculative Fiction, a book which is no longer in print. But as of today this story can be read for free on my Scribd account. Here’s a teaser: Earl Harper is a farmer who’s lost faith in God, in love, [...]
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Down in the Cellar

By Matt Mitchell | Published: October 28, 2009
There once was a great horror rag on the Internet called Down in the Cellar. It was particularly great because it purchased one of the very first stories I ever had published. The story was called “The Ghost of Tom Johns.” But now that DITC is RIP, that story is floating in the pool of offal [...]
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Money Crazy by Matt Mitchell

By Matt Mitchell | Published: March 17, 2009
“What do you want to do?” she asked, lamplight flickering across her profile. He looked at her sideways, “Whatever you want. That’s what I’ll do. I can’t deny it any more.” They were surrounded by whippoorwills in a humid Alabama night, amongst a din of crickets and frogs, sitting on a blanket an arm’s length apart. [...]
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Infinity, a story by Matt Mitchell

By Matt Mitchell | Published: March 6, 2009
Standing in the swirling mist, among a thousand blackbirds in a cacophony of chirps and squeaks. Walking among them and watching as they peck the ground and hop busily. Focusing on a point in the mist where the swirls seem to emanate, my heart is pounding. The birds don’t take flight, they part as I walk through, [...]
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A Movable Feast

By Matt Mitchell | Published: December 4, 2008
I had a revelation yesterday that I wrote briefly about, but now I’m going to elaborate a bit more on it. It’s one of those things that creeps up on you, that you don’t realize it’s there until it’s bitten you on the throat and sucked out all your blood (but in a good way). [...]
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A Free Novella

By Matt Mitchell | Published: December 3, 2008
Following in the footsteps of fellow indie writer Ken McConnell, I’ve decided to self-publish a book. Not my novel, but one of my novellas. I’ve formatted the text to 5 1/2″ x 7″, because I do so love a compact little book I can fit in my pocket. This might be too big for a pocket, [...]
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April Rain [The Woeful Blog Stats of Unabashed]

By Matt Mitchell | Published: May 1, 2008
I read somewhere that 75% of blog visitors bounce away from the site within the first 30 seconds of arrival. For me, that stat is higher (this graph is for the month of April): Wish I knew why. But at the same time I have around 10% who stay for longer than 15 minutes. To those [...]
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Milestones

By Matt Mitchell | Published: March 24, 2008
Interesting note, today I uploaded the picture of the Aurora Borealis to my Flickr account, and then made a post on the blog about it. As it ends up, that was my 200th picture uploaded into Flickr, and my 200th post on Unabashed, which is kind of freaky. As milestones, the Flickr one is dubious, [...]
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Hurricane Alley: Beaver Fight

By Hurricane | Published: March 16, 2008
This article is written by guest poster Haiman Caine, who promises to start giving us a column every now and then. He’s sometimes called Hurricane, so we’re going to call his column “Hurricane Alley.” Friday night was slow in the bar where I work. This guy–tall and lean, with a western shirt (the kind with snaps instead [...]
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The State of the Blog Address

By Matt Mitchell | Published: March 8, 2008
Okay, all my archives are finally in place, so past articles are available for your reading pleasure again (if you’re into that sort of thing). But–for some reason I lost some formatting in the transition, along with a few images. I’ve got 186 articles on this blog now, and I’ll start working through them gradually, [...]
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10 Things I’ve Done That You Probably Haven’t

By Matt Mitchell | Published: January 17, 2008
John Scalzi’s idea, but I like it so I’m putting it to use here. Is this a meme? Maybe. I don’t usually do memes but this one seemed fun. Scaled the exterior surface of a 1735′ radio tower. To the top. Really (pic at right is at 1100′ level). (I’ve been to the top of a [...]
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The Book

By Matt Mitchell | Published: December 12, 2007
My book is written. Well, it’s actually my third book, but the first one is not good and neither is the second, although with the second I believe its a good story, it just needs major rewrites. So, anyway, the book is done. It’s called Modern-Day Mythica, it’s around 120k words, and the premise is [...]
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Submission Packet

By Matt Mitchell | Published: October 17, 2007
I finished my submission packet today. I’m sending my novel “Modern-Day Mythica” to Tor in the hopes that it’ll be that one of ten thousand Tor accepts. Is it good enough? Who knows. The friends and relations who’ve read it thought it was good, or at least they were nice enough to tell me it [...]
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