“The mind is both the lifeline on which we depend and the instrument that breaks us down.”
Maleah Stephens
Featured Work
“The dusk in Kambrie nearly held a presence on its own. I remember this one sunset–it was so vivid I thought the rapture was coming. The entire neighborhood was bleeding red. The grass was orange, and the houses were soaked in a darkened brown overcast. It was apocalyptic. Most of the time, sunsets were delicate, but this one seemed furious. I was indoors when I noticed it. My sister and I were settling down for dinner when we saw the light flooding in through the sidelites on our front door. It stained the light in our house red, too. I kept waiting to hear trumpets.
“I remember the falling fire leaves,
And how they felt like you and me.
Dancing around each other,
Dismissing our fluttering skin,
And breezing through the vibrating city–
A swelling of words trapped in dead-ringer eyes.”
About Me
Biography
Maleah Stephens is an Atlanta-based writer specializing in existentialist, mythological, and psychological fiction, as well as poetry. She presently works as a freelance editor for fiction and nonfiction works, journalistic articles, and screenplays. Her work has been featured in Savannah Magazine, and she currently serves as the editor for Honeycomb, an online literary journal. In 2025, she worked as a screenwriter for the 48 Hour Film Project, where her script received a nomination for “Best Writing.”
Writer’s Statement
I am fascinated by the inner mechanics of the human psyche and how individual perception shapes the reality before us. In my own work, I seek to thoroughly explore the psychological make-up of the isolated consciousness, both the open facade and the dark corners, to develop compelling, intricate, and complex characters that strikingly resonate with perceptive readers. The mind is both the crucial lifeline on which we depend and the detrimental instrument that breaks us down—I aim to explore both sides of this contradictory coin to demonstrate the relativity of “truth” and offer the comforting notion that life is exactly what we make of it.
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