Anexis Matos

Blind author, content creator, and freelancer

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Hi, everyone! I’m Anexis and my pronouns are they/them. Nice to meet you! I’m a blind college student majoring in english with a concentration in creative writing. I’m a content creator who began on YouTube with the channel Videl Blind-The Blind Reader. I now currently run the channel Anexis Matos and no longer post on my old one. I started blogging to share my writing. I’ve always enjoyed stories. I started writing when I was between the ages of 10 and 12. My stories started out as Dragon Ball fanfiction which will never see the light of day because I deleted them. Now, I write original stories that I hope to share at some point. My aim with this blog is simply to share my thoughts on whatever interests me. From reviews to blindness, you’ll see it here.

Category: Poetry

  • Trouble

    You got too comfortable, but it wasn’t your fault. I got comfortable around you and invited you into my life. You were right one time, so I decided to trust you again. Why not? You proved your loyalty to me. I wrote a story whose title I can’t remember. I was so proud. It was…

  • Your Name Is Advocacy

    He sat across from me when he told me you were important. He told me to trust you, but never warned me that you would disappoint me. He made you out to be the solution to problems I didn’t see. He made you seem like some form of rescuer, but did he know the weight…

  • Cure

    They’ve prayed, asking some god to heal me. To cure me. I know they’re kind, but I wonder if they think at all. Why would I be blind if their god didn’t want me to be? There’s no cure. Maybe there will be, but not yet. Blindness is here to stay.

  • Letter to Akira Toriyama

    From time to time, I think about you. Not in depth, but I do. Your stories. Your characters. Your time. Your dedication. Your genius. Why should I think of authors? You’re deities in your own right, giving us gifts that we don’t always deserve. Then again, that’s how benevolent deities are, aren’t they? But you’re…

  • My Vagina’s Crime

    For four days every month, I get an unwanted visitor. She never announces herself. Never knocks on the door. She’s only too happy to disrupt my life. I’m in no physical pain, but I’m still in pain. I will be for many years because I’m not lucky enough for her to go away early. I…

  • Naked

    My bathroom has a mirror that I stand in front of every day. We’re about the same height, but it’s part of a cabinet, so it sits a few inches from my face. I used to pretend I could see myself in mirrors. When I put on makeup, I told people I was looking at…

  • Nostalgia

    Nostalgia is an old friend. Sometimes, it’s known to you. Other times, it’s a stranger, but you just know it. A song. A vibe. It doesn’t matter. Even as a stranger, you know it when you see it. Nostalgia is the friend you reach out to when nothing is working out. It comforts you. Distracts…

  • Predator

    I lost touch with her years ago, but, with the grace and intelligence of a predator, you found her. You found me. You slid into my messages by taking over a part of her. You gave me what I wanted. What I needed. A flexible job that would let me write. I think you knew…

  • Let’s Play Pretend

    Let’s Play Pretend

    Let’s play pretend.The world is not an awful place.It’s not a broken place.Nothing needs to change. Let’s play pretend.My lifeisn’t shattering around me.Pieces of mearen’t being shreddedlike an unwanted letterthat arrives in the mail. Let’s play pretend.I’m not strugglingto ask for somethingthat should be givenwithout so much work.That I didn’t cryin front of an unseen…

  • A Priestess So Clever and Kind

    A Priestess So Clever and Kind

    There once was a princess,so clever and kindborn to a kingdomwhere hearts were left behind. Her world was cold,so dark and bleak.She was always silent,for she could not speak. Magic paid a visiton stormy skies of gray.They saw her potentialand chose to stay. A gift she was given,one with no strings,but visions followed,forming dark rings.…