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MATTYOSPEAKS

The official dwelling place of Matthias Overos' writings. Poetry, fiction, non-fiction. Updated every so often.

Recent Work

30 Zen Stories and Koans for the New Millennium

Vision #13: Finding Ben Shapiro Alone With My Daughter

Woman in Red (M.H.)

Notions of Pyramids

February 14, 2025

Bystander

January 12, 2025

October Drive, Virginia, 1996

October 11, 2024

On Short Fiction

October 11, 2024

Four Short Stories About Cities

September 7, 2024

Lizzie in the Evening, c. 1865

Dream Vision - Summer

In the Hospital

Three Short Stories About Paintings

For GEN-Z J.J.K

Towards the Realm of the Sunny Ground

February 9, 2024

New Year Meditation

December 31, 2023

My Spotify AI DJ Told Me I Spent Most of the Year "Yearning"

December 18, 2023

Writing Update: November 25, 2023

November 25, 2023

Tuesday Morning, Berlin. 1830.

October 12, 2023

Meditation on Giovanni di Paolo’s “The Annunciation and Expulsion from Paradise" c. 1435

October 2, 2023

Sestina #4

August 27, 2023

A Summary and Reflection on "Catcher in the Rye 2: Electric Boogaloo"

A Sonnet for Our Raging Thoughts

An Anatomy of Fear

Ever So Much: A One Act Audio Play

Excerpt from Dr. Midastippen's Commentary of Marx's Das Kapital Vol. 3

April-May

Adventures in TikTok

Jean-Pierre Reflects Upon His Life and Country

Letter to a Young Member of the Chinese Nation in Response to a Question About Times Gone By

My Life in a Drone in the Ground