MusQueToe

Fragmentation is a method, not a malfunction.

The writing and the music are not separate practices. They are the same investigation carried out in different materials.

For readers the self-help section failed and academic philosophy talked past, and for listeners drawn to process-driven composition where the thinking is part of the work.

Selected Work

Writing

Fiction, poetry, and essays at the intersection of philosophy and testimony. No resolution for comfort.

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Sound

Voice, instrument, and code taken apart and rebuilt into something that accumulates without resolving.

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About

Bio

MusQueToe is a writer, experimental vocal artist, and composer based in South Carolina. The work spans fiction, poetry, essays, and music assembled from voice, instrument, and code. Four forms, one inquiry: what staying conscious costs, and what gets built out of the wreckage.

The essay practice engages absurdism, Jungian depth psychology, and the lived experience of fracture and reconstruction. The fiction moves the same questions into genre and finds different pressure points. The music extends the instinct further: voice as something to fragment and rebuild, subjected to the same editorial rigor as prose, until it tells the truth in ways straight speech won't.

Philosophical grounding in Camus, Jung, Rinzai Zen, and Stoicism runs through all of it, as operative framework, not decoration.

Artist Statement

I work with what breaks. Voice that has been taken apart. Sentences that don't close. Sound that accumulates without resolution.

The music and the writing are not separate practices. They are the same investigation carried out in different materials. The question underneath both: what does it mean to hold something together when the coherence is not given, it has to be made. Every piece is an answer to that question that refuses to settle.

I'm interested in the moment after fragmentation. Not the fragment itself. The reconstruction. The thing that gets built from what's left.

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Writing

Fiction, poetry, and essays that work as philosophy and testimony simultaneously. The same questions, carried across different forms.

Essay Collection

Integration in the Absurd In Progress

A collection of essays engaging absurdism, Jungian depth psychology, and the experience of reconstruction after prolonged fracture, working as philosophy and confession simultaneously. Frameworks tested against actual crisis, not applied to it.

Novelette

The Conspirators' Hour In Final Edit

Franco, Batista, and the Beatles walk into a mind control plot. What follows moves between dark comedy and genuine menace. History as farce, power as pathology, and a question underneath the absurdity that refuses to stay funny.

Prose Fiction

The Empty Frame In Final Edit

A work extending the same inquiry through a different material logic across six fixed sections: Perimeter, Grain, Solvent, Mouth, They Don't Get It, Eclipse.

Short Story, Unpublished

Signal to Noise

A man tracks his own thoughts in a notebook as the signal degrades and the noise rises, until he can no longer tell which one he is.

Excerpt

Ray kept a notebook.

Not a journal. He was careful about that distinction. Journals were for people who believed their feelings were worth preserving. The notebook was a tool. He wrote down what he was certain of, to keep it separate from what he wasn't.

The coffee is hot. I am in the kitchen. My name is Raymond Elliot Marsh.

He started in October, after the hissing began.

Flash Fiction, Unpublished

Wrong Door

A middle-aged man on his way to buy a glazed donut walks through the wrong door and ends up somewhere identifiably hell.

Flash Fiction, Unpublished

Whispers Between the Walls

A flash fiction about a person that moves into a house and slowly realizes it has a way of making itself hard to leave.

Excerpt

The house wasn't haunted when I moved in. It was just quiet in a way that paid attention.

I moved in with a mattress, two boxes, and a lamp that needed to be tilted to stay on. The agent had mentioned, almost as an aside, that the previous tenant had disappeared. No struggle. No note. Just gone, the way some people leave when they've decided to stop being findable. I told myself she'd run. I recognized the sound of that even from a distance.

Ebook

Theatre without an Audience

A flash fiction work of surreal, gothic horror about ritual, surrender, and the terrible suspicion that we are all rehearsing a play we've mistaken for a life. Available through Books2Read.

→ Books2Read

Substack

Found in the Margin

Dispatches, fragments, release notes, process, and work in progress that wouldn't stay quiet, sent out as they surface.

Latest from Found in the Margin Fractal Futurist and BANNERS are outJul 26, 2026

Four new tracks landed today on Bandcamp.

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Sound

Voice, instrument, and found sound fragmented and reconstructed into something that resists the familiar. Every piece starts with a voice: processed and layered, treated as an instrument itself.

Listen

→ BANNERS on Bandcamp
→ musquetoe.bandcamp.com

Released

More recordings are underway, extending the same practice into new territory: pieces dismantled and rebuilt until they hold a shape different from the one they started in. Nothing named yet. The next release will surface here once it's ready.

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Press & Contact

For booking, press, and other inquiries.

theMusQueToe@gmail.com

Press

MusQueToe writes and records under the imprint MNML/0: fiction, poetry, essays, and music, all working the same question from different angles. The palette draws on Camus, Jung, Rinzai Zen, and Stoicism, used as tools rather than references.

The live set occupies the space between performance and installation: twenty to forty-five minutes, suited to rooms where the audience is close and the amplification is modest.

EPK

Bio, artist statement, catalog, live rider, and contact. Four pages.

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OneSheet

The one-page version, for booking and quick reference.

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Logo Files

Wordmark and colophon assets

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MusQueToe · 2026 MNML/0
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