Active 1 year, 10 months ago Hayley Matto

@hayley-matto

Member since March 24, 2024

Total Reads: 42
Total Posts: 8
  • Ecstasy and agony I don’t often pair music with my pieces, but I felt this was worth sharing (even though I really don’t like the cover pic of the video, […]

    • I really enjoyed this one, and I’m glad you paired the song, it was a good companion to this piece. Really beautiful flow and rythm, nicely done!

    • So many beautiful lines in this one Heather, Beautiful things make me cry too. I really loved the ideas and the sense of moments of hope and freedom. The music also paired so well with it! Perfect choice!

    • I love pairing music and poems together, while I am already in love with the words I want to listen and read a couple more times!
      Just got done on my second read with the music playing and it really gave the words so much depth as I read; I feel like I really relate to being sensitive to the good and bad and you captured that amazingly here!

    • Simply beautiful, but I think I already told you that. P.S. I’m still trying to work my way back to finding some inspiration.

  • Celia wrote a new post 2 years, 4 months ago

    The Girl who Cradled Time The Girl who Cradled Time

    • Oh, this is awesome, Celia! More of that wonderful world-building and intriguing imagination at play here. How did you get the narration done? It really worked well! Enjoyed it a lot and love when you just let your mind wander and conjure up these beautiful tales. So often with strong female leads. Impressive!

      • Thank you so much Paul! It’s narrated by a friend of Rivers. They’re are a folk musician and they have this amazing voice so they recorded it and I put it into vid with the words. It feels so weird to actually hear my own story! We were thinking for the quest winner one of the prizes might be to have the story narrated and set to vid? Do you think that might be something writers would want?

        • Oh wow…cos at first I thought it was AI…but noticed you marked the non-AI thing and it sounded way more natural. I think it would be an awesome and intriguing prize for sure. For me anyway. Would be good for people’s portfolio – if they were considering what else they could do with their writing – as it would showcase the flow and cadence or in general how it sounded…I think. I can imagine it sounding weird lol. I thought that when Jazzy would read stuff on her podcast, lol. Surreal. But…if we ever become something with the writing…lots of different people would be reading them haha! But, honestly, I love your vivid and almost psychedelic magical realism, deep and philosophical fiction!

    • Wow, what a beautiful and creative story! I loved the narrator’s voice and have been appreciating the font that’s been used for the content on Mus’d 🙂

    • Jesus Paul…You need to SOC more often! This is bloody brilliant – Loved it! The humour, the references – fantastic writing! And have to agreee…Dan Brown is a bit of a bore 😁

      • bahaha. Hands down some of the most fun I’ve had writing in a while. I am not going to say whether it’s honest or not…that’s not the point lol. I think I was thinking too much about success, ambition and how artists of all kinds are supposed to be “Oh I don’t want the fame and legacy” and it made me think “Why?” That’s probably the most honest part. The rest…well…I just thought it would be hilarious to write something unashamedly arrogant lol. It was suppose to be my next post on the other place…but I decided to put it here first. A Mus-d exclusive lol! Thank you for your lovely comment…I was worried (though not really) about this one…and yes, Dan Brown. I never bothered reading a full book, because I found his writing tedious. I am sure the others mentioned in a less than flattering light might stir the pot a little…but that’s what art’s there for. lol. I am concerned too – I state my passing as being 45…I’m bloody 44 now lol!

        • Honestly, I think it’s one of my favourite pieces of yours- the tone is perfect, just truly brilliant! And a Mus’d exclusive – I’m liking that. I have an IT dude meeting tomorrow as I’ve reached the rather low zenith of my tech capability – hopefully he can sort the messaging issue and set up stripe so we can start paying for reads and the daily Muse payout and stuff. It’s gonna take a while but hopefully we can build a really community 🙂 And PS We have nothing against ‘The other place’ just didn’t give us what we needed 🤍

    • Wow, this is so freaking good. Everything, the detail, I agree with Celia the humor was an outstanding part of the piece. Really awesome work here Paul

      • Thank you, River! It’s the best fun I had had up until that point when I wrote it. Not that I ever write and don’t enjoy it. I just felt so…free and unhinged haha! Appreciate that it’s being received in the way it was intended. Thank you again!

  • The Dance The brush of the broom slowly drifting back and forth across the dappled gray floor created a sort of lulling melody. One many would deem a […]

  • Celia wrote a new post 2 years, 4 months ago

    Mirrors and Misconceptions: Know Thyself If thou truly wishest to know, remain. But stay not if thine interest in reality be feigned. Most are thus. Time […]

    • Wonderful story, you absolutely nailed the vernacular of this world and period. I was picturing the Huntsman movie as I read this. Loved the confidence in the last line, believe in truth or do not. Stellar work!

      • Thank you so much for reading! Bit of a weird one I think but I had fun with messing around witht he language 🙂

  • at least At least she isn’t suffering At least it wasn’t worse At least it’ll all be over soon At least she has a nurse At least it wasn’t fatal At least […]

    • Oh my…this was so frivilously fun until the sucker punch of the last line – that slapped me right in the face! Very true though, I use it a lot and hate that I do but its that western kinda thing we do to ourselves when we just wanna moan but have been programmed to not. I love your cover art so much also! Beautiful!

      • It feels like such a crutch and yet I can’t help doing it. Like, here’s the silver lining to your sack of crap. Thank you so much for reading 🙂 And I’ve been trying to go through all my ‘discarded’ images and use them for inspiration.

        • I hear that…another go to for me is the classic ‘could be worse’ …Its somehow comforting to know that other people find themselves irritated with themselves as much as I am with myself 🤣 Wow, discared – it really is stunning!

  • Behind the Heavy Curtains Every morning I’d cross my room like a thief in the night. The curtain remained closed, and the lights were turned off. I liked t […]

  • ROCK wrote a new post 2 years, 4 months ago

    HOUSEKEEPING; In a Minute   Reading glasses swinging back and forth, dangling from a drug store string slung around my neck I said, to myself of course, I […]

    • Such a quietyl beautiful piece ROCK, I love the gentleness to it and the desciptions of the mundane are wonderful contrasted with the vision. 🤍

    • Why are there these strange question mark thingys in so many places in my writing. I didn’t put them there? Ugh. I saw them in Cath Holme’s as well.

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