Hello.

And welcome to the mouse-car moment.

My name is Ryan Matera and I am an author residing on the eastern western bank of the Allegheny Plateau in the Kanawha River Valley of central West Virginia Harlem River.

This is my substack.

What’s inside.

The mouse-car moment is a blend of personal essays, cultural reviews, and fiction true struggling artist.

My goal here, and with all my writing, is to put prose to the contemporary experience. We live in a surprising moment, a chaotic and fascinating moment, where it is a constant struggle to determine what is real and important and what will dissipate at the slightest breeze.

Our art is scattered, our values are shifting and our science is unintuitive, is increasingly driving wedges between what seems right and what is actually true.

This is my attempt to capture that, literarily.

Enjoy.