Stacey Mataxis Whitlow (SMW)

Joined July 2022

78 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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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
The Absence of Me. . Winner in You Were Never Really Here Challenge.
The door is locked. It hasn’t been opened in six days. Beyond it, the world hums like a distant machine. Muffled footsteps of a mother too afraid to knock can be heard outside the door. The whirring pulse of the ceiling fan overhead adds an off rythm ticking and underneath it all, the quiet click-click of something inside my skull trying to reboot itself.
By Stacey Mataxis Whitlow (SMW)6 months ago in Fiction
Silence
@ Bonaventure Cemetery, Savannah, Georgia The living walk amongst the dead; every day, under the southern sun. Their cultivated whispers
By Stacey Mataxis Whitlow (SMW)7 months ago in Poets
Wanderings
@ Denver's Botanical Gardens, 2022 Apparently, one should never go to the gardens alone, or so says the kind old man, with the puzzled face,
By Stacey Mataxis Whitlow (SMW)7 months ago in Poets
I am love
I am Simple Easy Not a raging inferno Burning down the world That is passion. I’m never hurtful or destructive I won’t trap you
By Stacey Mataxis Whitlow (SMW)11 months ago in Poets
The Feminine Mystique
They say that you can never go home again, and that must be the case. I walked across Pangaea so long ago; I forgot it ever existed.
By Stacey Mataxis Whitlow (SMW)12 months ago in Poets
The Golden Brick Road
my road to hell was built with would haves and could haves, wishes and promises, fairy tales and fables, shared around the hearth's fire,
By Stacey Mataxis Whitlow (SMW)12 months ago in Poets
A Journey Through Life
I released my words to the world in 2022. I have since had great luck publishing and winning a few smaller awards. This is the life I always dreamed of but was never brave enough to embrace...until my world fell apart in 2019 and I could no longer hold it all inside. Sometimes our darkest moments require just the right amount of fire. The perfect amount to burn it all down and rise again. My life as a writer began when my life as a teacher ended.
By Stacey Mataxis Whitlow (SMW)12 months ago in Journal
the stuff of fairytales (mid res) . Content Warning.
“Perhaps you have figured it out by now, but little girls don’t stay little forever. They grow into strong women that return to destroy your world.” McKayla Maroney
By Stacey Mataxis Whitlow (SMW)12 months ago in Poets
Eternal Wanderings
@ Small Gem Press 2025 I traveled through the torii (鳥居) today in search of Benzaiten. I dined with bees. Feasted on plants.
By Stacey Mataxis Whitlow (SMW)about a year ago in Poets
A Marriage Blessing (II)
There is a reason that all fairy tales end with weddings. Many believe it is because married life is too mundane to be exciting;
By Stacey Mataxis Whitlow (SMW)2 years ago in The Swamp
Foundations & Frames
Foundations & Frames Decaying houses resting on crumbling foundations. Ghostly shadows dressed in remembered riches twirling under flickering lights meandering endless halls.
By Stacey Mataxis Whitlow (SMW)3 years ago in Poets