Blog Blog
- To Write or Not to Write?
by Mariah on September 24, 2025 at 11:00 pmEither way, guilt was waiting.
- Can't Read, Can't Write, Send Help
by Mariah on June 17, 2025 at 7:17 pmWhy I can’t read and write at the same time, and how I’m trying to stop seeing that as a failure.
- Learning How By Actually Doing
by Mariah on June 5, 2025 at 7:05 pmWhat I'm doing with my short story collection, and why
- She Gets on the Plane
by Mariah on May 29, 2025 at 7:18 pmOn the kind of reader I imagine, and why
- Five Years Later, I'm Still Writing the Same Damn Novel
by Mariah on May 23, 2025 at 6:31 pmWhat it’s taught me about perfection, persistence, and letting a story grow with you
Darkness waits in the quiet places: in the mines, by the river, in the rooms where love curdles into grief. A Mouthful of Earth gathers stories of myth, horror, and the fragile edges of human longing.
Wasps hum in the dark, a man waits on the banks of the Styx, a sleepless town whispers of an ancient creature, a beloved cat returns with something wrong in its bones, and grief itself becomes a haunting.
Lyrical and unsettling, Mariah Faye’s debut collection explores what we bury and what refuses to stay buried—reminding us that even stone has shadows, and the earth is never as silent as it seems.
