Martheaus Perkins

TV-MA| 58m |Stand-Up 
Comedian poet sounds off on post-industrial feminism, hallucinations of his mom’s life without  him in the family pictures, and Taco Bell sauce packets during his fire-brand set using jokes and  deflective forms to avoid deep-seated mental shit. 

TV-14| one season cut short |Because Momma had to drop out of college 
At Tituba University, you must be willing to brew, broom, or rune your way to become the most  powerful witch in East Texas. One Wiccan finds her future cursed and needs a little black magic to save her freshman year. 

TV-14| 1hr 34m |Documentary 
Witness the untold story of the child-free, sociocultural culinary icon, freedom fighter, Nobel winning accountant, and world-renowned Mezzo-Soprano “Black Jane Goodall.” Momma  always said she would’ve been a vet.
 
TV-MA| minutes adhered to your skull |Horror 
28-year-old man craves brains and black flesh. High school girl just wants to taste her first beer.  Hard to compromise with the undead, so why not beat some sense into them with a barbed-wire  bat? Watch the girl escape being taken advantage of by an apocalypse man—escape having to  carry the child of a Bud Light-packing creep. 

PG| 1h 31m |#1 in Family 
Love, laughter, leprechauns, and a life without having to ask your boy to pee in bottles for drug  tests. It’s all a princess can ask for. Feather-touched is the head that wears the tiara. 

Parental Guidance Suggested| Plenty of time |Sci-Fi 
There’s something rotten, lying in state within a womb. Werner Herzog explores the effects 21  years of marinating in radioactive waste has had on one villager from Houston’s Third Ward.  Half-lyrebird, half-woman, sprouting tendrils of ambition, growing eyes of possibility on her  shoulders. 

Indecent Language| 12m |Emmy-Nominated Limited Series 
Grandma’s eighteen-year-old daughter just returned from across the world with a cumbersome  souvenir . . . a White man’s baby. It’s up to Granny to save her daughter from becoming my mom—to ungranny herself. She’ll try a quick, convincing chat. Will daughter listen? Now’s not the time. Whole life ahead of you. Is this what you want? Will Granny save herself the time of  having to take the boy in twelve years after her daughter cuts an elbow on a concrete eviction notice? It’ll be a fucking hoot, I assure you. 

Therapist-approved| still figuring it out |Reality 
Blame and guilt pick foundation rock off the spirit—carry shards dream-long like the Caribbean  wind carries sea salt. In this cerebral escapism, you are unburdened. An atmosphere of  unpolluted fantasy. But the doctor says I shouldn’t think this way. I’m media-washing my mind with airs and graces. Meth could have been an only child. The men could have been worse if you  weren’t a mother. Maybe, the doctor tells me, I could have saved you. Your choices, I’m made to say. Your choices. But while watching these bleak-dappled screens, I can’t help but dream of you 
binging on  
the life you traded for me.

Martheaus Perkins is pursuing an MFA at George Mason University and co-editor of BRAWL. His work has appeared in West Trade Review, PRISM International, Obsidian, and Longleaf Review, and elsewhere. He is an emerging Black writer currently dealing with an obsession with hot foods and excessively long YouTube videos. He can be found on Instagram and X @martheaus.