Conor Matthews
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Writer. Opinions are my own. https://ko-fi.com/conormatthews
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Class Subconscious
Class Subconscious On the 4th of December 2024, the CEO of UnitedHealthCare [sic], Brian Thompson was short dead in the streets of Manhattan, New York. The current suspect is Luigi Mangione who, at the time of writing, appears to have been motivated by the predatory nature of health insurance American, and his own debilitating and expensive experiences with a serious back injury.
By Conor Matthews11 months ago in The Swamp
Publisher! You're Making A Mistake!. Top Story - December 2024.
It’s taken me twenty years to say “I am a writer” without wincing. I was fourteen when I made the decision to pursue writing, and I’ve spent the last two decades reenforcing that terrible, short-sighted mistake. In that time, I’ve seen trends come and go. The YA Fantasy boom. The rise of cable and streaming dramas. The Impact of the 2008 credit crash. The erotic fiction of Chuck Tingle (Google him)! And the billion-dollar influence of BookTok. But there has been one constant. A policy, if not an industry standard, that has lasted for at least twenty years.
By Conor Matthewsabout a year ago in Writers
The Iinglish of Dynya: Part 3
PART 2 HERE Pabbi was a content man. Too content, some would say. He did not weep alone at the altar on his wedding day, without bride or priest. He was the talk of Dynya, a man of sheer stoicism and unflappable restraint. Men would buy him drinks to hear his tale, pulling him off the streets and into shady bars, hoping to hear of a man with a strong will, untremblingly lip, and a renewed sense of bachelorhood. What they found, instead, was a bore.
By Conor Matthewsabout a year ago in Chapters
