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The Long Version
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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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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
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.
The Air Between Us: A Pop Song About the Moment Before Everything Changes
“The Air Between Us” captures the electric moment before a first kiss... when breath slows, glances linger, and the air feels alive. This acoustic pop love song blends singer-songwriter intimacy with layered vocal storytelling, exploring tension, anticipation, and connection felt through vibration.
Read My Lips: What That Phrase Actually Means When You're Deaf
"Read my lips" is a throwaway phrase for most people. For me, it's a demand the world has made since the day I went deaf. So I wrote a song that flips it. Here's what that phrase really means, how the acoustic version found its way to a different key, and how I record music by feeling instead of hearing.
Waymon Hudson
Jul 75 min read
The Watchers: Broadway’s Anthems of Witness
“The Watchers” is the queer spiritual core of Speakeasy — a sacred Broadway anthem about survival, chosen family, and the power of witnessing each other.
Waymon Hudson
Nov 22, 20255 min read
Women of Broadway: The Matriarchs Who Remember
Broadway’s women of color have always held the stage — but for queer Black women, the song was never theirs to sing. In Speakeasy: A New Musical, Miss Addie breaks the silence, turning memory into rebellion and love into legacy.
Waymon Hudson
Nov 15, 20255 min read
All That I Am: When Queer Broadway Characters Refuse to Stay Supporting
When Queer Broadway characters stop hiding behind the jokes and start demanding to be seen, the result is electric. In Speakeasy, Merc’s “All That I Am” turns vulnerability into power — and the supporting character into the soul of the story.
Waymon Hudson
Nov 8, 20255 min read
Broadway's Hidden Ones — Queer Survival in Plain Sight
Speakeasy: A New Musical captures what Broadway has always known: queer survival is defiance in disguise. From drag bans to police raids, this is how we keep singing.
Waymon Hudson
Nov 1, 20256 min read
Queer Broadway Longing: Love in the Shadows (and the Spotlight) That Refuses to Hide
From Wicked to Speakeasy, queer longing has always shaped Broadway’s heart. This piece celebrates Merc — lover, liberator, and proof that queer love belongs in the spotlight.
Waymon Hudson
Oct 25, 20256 min read
How Queer Joy Became My Protest (and Why It Still Matters Today)
Queer joy is protest. It saved my life — and now I write stories that use it like glitter-covered armor.
Waymon Hudson
Jun 27, 20253 min read
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