Mackenzie Davis

Joined August 2022

179 stories

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“When you are describing a shape, or sound, or tint, don’t state the matter plainly, but put it in a hint. And learn to look at all things with a sort of mental squint.” Lewis Carroll

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Solitude Dues
Blench the sneering storm Thunder snaps like a wild dog Warm body. Hot sweat.
By Mackenzie Davis3 months ago in Poets
loom. Runner-Up in Haunted Echoes Challenge.
A door unspools black One bough brands the groping moon. Nimble fingers…pluck.
By Mackenzie Davis3 months ago in Poets
i ████ the messenger
𝟾 𝙰𝚞𝚐𝚞𝚜𝚝, 𝟸𝟶𝟸𝟿
By Mackenzie Davis4 months ago in Fiction
Pen Names. Winner in Lantern Light Challenge. Top Story - October 2025.
Light in the wee hours is crepe-like; white, draped gauze across a wound. Forgotten, now, the injurious moment, to all but two: flame and shadow.
By Mackenzie Davis4 months ago in Poets
still
aspens drop in sighs. thin shadows, stretching endless— map the dappled frost
By Mackenzie Davis4 months ago in Poets
grand finale
the wind catches it brim fire o’er the mesa your final cigar
By Mackenzie Davis4 months ago in Poets
EarPlosions. Top Story - September 2025.
Sam Spinelli has set us a challenge: Introduce him to songs that he will hate just as much, if not more, than we, ourselves, do.
By Mackenzie Davis4 months ago in Beat
Aches and Pains
I can see for miles dust and salt and heat pressed like time. thinner
By Mackenzie Davis5 months ago in Poets
Spatchcock the Brain. Winner in Somewhere Between Here and There Challenge.
I know a very little. Enough to straggle and make fun— see, I catch thoughts like clouds catch rain, and lose them
By Mackenzie Davis5 months ago in Poets
Fear River. Honorable Mention in Everything Looks Better From Far Away Challenge. Top Story - August 2025.
From time to time, Old Annie could remember how she found the piece of that vintage telephone. How a creek running out from the swamp had washed it down, held crawdad hatchlings under an eddy, and then tumbled itself shiny along the bed.
By Mackenzie Davis5 months ago in Fiction
I remember—. Winner in This Is How I Remember It Challenge. Content Warning.
I remember— one cramped bedroom, seven siblings, a slew of strangers never leaving with the rats.
By Mackenzie Davis6 months ago in Poets
I Want You To Keep Us!. Top Story - August 2025.
Hiya, Vocal. I’ve been thinking. And though it hasn’t been a long think-session, I believe I’ve stumbled upon a suggestion that might serve a certain kind of Creator who may have given up on the platform as their launch pad.
By Mackenzie Davis6 months ago in Writers