Stacey Mataxis Whitlow (SMW)

Joined July 2022

77 stories

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Welcome to my brain. My daydreams are filled with an unquenchable wanderlust, and an unrequited love affair with words haunts my sleepless nights. I do some of my best work here, my messiest work for sure. Want more? https://a.co/d/iBToOK8

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Xel-Ha, Mexico
(—A Pilgrimage Interrupted) I. The Ones Who Remember (Xel-Ha, Mexico – Reverence) In the mystical lands of Mexico, trees walk slowly toward the water—
By Stacey Mataxis Whitlow (SMW)6 months ago in Poets
North Sentinel Island
Was it worth it— this uninvited longing to shape the destiny of others, to save those who never asked to be found? Was it worth it—
By Stacey Mataxis Whitlow (SMW)6 months ago in Poets
When the Sun Loved the Earth
Once upon a time, there was a star— a goddess radiant— driven away by the hatred of her brother, Susanowo. Domination.
By Stacey Mataxis Whitlow (SMW)6 months ago in Poets
The Geminid Meteor Shower
The night sky splits— a black canvas torn by the bright shards of a broken god’s son. Each meteor: a sliver of Phaethon’s shame,
By Stacey Mataxis Whitlow (SMW)6 months ago in Poets
The Music Beneath My Skin. Top Story - July 2025.
At Duke Hospital, they wired me up like a broken marionette— electrodes blooming across my limbs, silver petals designed to catch
By Stacey Mataxis Whitlow (SMW)6 months ago in Poets
The Gravity of Smoke. Honorable Mention in The Summer That Wasn’t Challenge.
🌒 Night has a different kind of gravity. In the basement of a dingy college pool hall, this gravity settles into the walls, thick as smoke and twice as heavy. It wraps around one’s shoulders, seeps into one’s hair, clinging to one’s clothes, and it slides into one’s lungs like an old sorrow.
By Stacey Mataxis Whitlow (SMW)6 months ago in Fiction
There Were Signs. Honorable Mention in Masks We Wear Challenge. Content Warning.
ah, my brilliant girl— you made a tactical mistake in the war you waged upon yourself. you underestimated your opponents
By Stacey Mataxis Whitlow (SMW)6 months ago in Poets
Explosions
When I first tried to come down to earth there was a huge explosion. A violent burst of becoming- a rift torn in the veil
By Stacey Mataxis Whitlow (SMW)6 months ago in Poets
“When I First Tried to Come Down to Earth”
When I first tried to come down to Earth, there was an explosion. Not fire— but the collapse of a name too large for breath,
By Stacey Mataxis Whitlow (SMW)6 months ago in Poets
The Outer Banks, NC
I built glass castles on top of sandy, shifting shores— until high tide returned to wash them all away. I have thrown worry stones
By Stacey Mataxis Whitlow (SMW)6 months ago in Poets
New Mexico (Mid Res)
On the driest day, beneath a sun that sears what it should have warmed, they root in silence— not in soil, but in the fractured mouths
By Stacey Mataxis Whitlow (SMW)6 months ago in Poets
If Only the Sea Could Love a Star. Runner-Up in Light Breaks Water Challenge. Top Story - July 2025.
A beam of light— a golden breath, a whisper of want, a slip of gold skimming across the water. Apollo leans in,
By Stacey Mataxis Whitlow (SMW)6 months ago in Poets