My name, or rather the name I started using at 16, is Mekenzie. I make things and I make things up. I’m a storyteller and book nerd, a recluse with the heart of an adventurer. I live in a pit I refer to as Dogtown in the sticks riding the border between Mississippi and Alabama. Yes, I have an accent. No, there isn’t a couch in my front yard. It’s on the back porch.
Company is split between our many dogs and cats on the 1.5 acre “farm” we share. I wake to the sounds of tractors and fall asleep to the sound of baying cows. The infinite amount of alone time breeds the desire to read whatever is available which in turn breeds the desire to write. I spend too much time in my own head and have meaningless conversations with people who only exist on paper. Maybe you’ll find some of the stories here interesting enough to share. That’s my ultimate goal in life. That people know I was here.
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