The Long Version

The short version is on social. This is where things get explained properly.

Song deep-dives, behind-the-scenes on the musical and the horror archive, notes on craft and identity, and the practical truth about building a life in Costa Rica.

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Cracked Bottles, Broken Hearts (Live) cover art, Waymon Hudson, Sessions from the Velvet Boot

The Song That Was Never Meant to Be Sung Alone | Cracked Bottles, Broken Hearts Behind the Music

The story behind Cracked Bottles, Broken Hearts, a company number from Waymon Hudson's musical Speakeasy, stripped to one voice and a piano for Sessions from the Velvet Boot.

Stay Through the Storm (Acoustic Version) cover art, Waymon Hudson

Love Songs Aren't Only About Romance

This is a love song. I want to say that plainly, because I've noticed people sometimes hedge when a song could be read more than one way, and I don't want to hedge. It's just that love means more than one thing, and this song knows that. If you hear it as romantic, you're not misreading it. Play it at your wedding. Play it on your anniversary to the person who's been beside you through the years that weren't the good ones. That reading is completely true. But if the person

Blurred human silhouettes moving behind dark glass in a cinematic horror scene representing Silent Horrors themes of identity distortion, liminal horror, and unsettling short fiction.

What Is Silent Horrors? Inside the Archive of Small Unexplainable Things

Silent Horrors is an archive of unsettling short horror stories, strange encounters, and impossible memories. Somewhere between analog horror, psychological horror, weird fiction, and modern folklore, each file stands alone—but readers have started noticing patterns. Doors left open. Rooms that feel occupied. Mirrors behaving strangely. The stories don’t seem connected. Until they do.

Waymon Hudson, queer creative and marketing executive, in a crisp white outfit against a clean backdrop — symbolizing multi-hyphenate identity, personal branding, and creative confidence.

From Corporate Strategy to Broadway Scores: Thriving as a Queer Multi-Hyphenate Creative

Marketing exec by day, Broadway writer by night. I don’t juggle roles — I braid them. This is what being a multi-hyphenate looks like.

💡 Craft & Identity

Waymon Hudson

Jul 19, 20253 min read

The Dogs, the Jungle, and the Joy: My Costa Rica Queer Expat Life Reboot

What do burnout, a jungle surf town, and three small rescue dogs have in common? They saved my life. This is the story of how I left corporate chaos behind, rebooted my queer joy, and wrote a Broadway musical with parrots screaming in the background.

Waymon Hudson

Jul 14, 20253 min read