Hello,
It’s Stephanie. And this is The Unraveling. A home for words and stories of all shapes and kinds. A home for people who share an unwavering love for literature and its surrounding orbits. A home for people who believe that breathing and writing are of the same doing.
When I was thinking of what to name this space, one of my favorite words keeps coming back to me, resurfacing over the years like a buoy keeping me afloat. The dictionary describes the word unravel as disentangling something.
To make clear, to unknot, to come undone. Sometimes even to disintegrate and destroy. And to make something known and understood.
I think along with breathing, that’s what writing is to me. Untangling the knots of my mind to better smooth out its inner workings. Writing to unravel what’s true and destroy what isn’t. Because the truth is relentless, and it will always come up for air.
For a long time, I’ve been wanting to build a literary space wherein people can finally come home. A place not just for book lovers, wordsmiths, bibliophiles, but for anyone who needs to feed their hearts and minds. Ones aching to breathe easy. Ones looking for somewhere they can weave their words quietly. Ones soft enough to let the words weave them. Or ones just looking to soften from years and decades of living in a world that often stiffens us.
And since I haven’t built said space in the physical world yet, why not create one here instead? I’ve taken the liberty of doing exactly that.
You get a newsletter twice a month in your inbox for free. It will contain either a new poem, prose, written meditation, a stream of thinking and feeling. And if you subscribe monthly or annually, you’ll get more than that - travel journal entries, writing prompts, essays with audio, weekly writing circles, and some rare excerpts from a novel and other writing projects I’m currently working on. Occurring twice a week, some weeks with a bonus. And there’s more. There will always be more as this space expands and grows as long as we water it.
See you in the abyss?
Either way - welcome home.
x
Steph
