Allison Wyss (But the abyss... It's still in my heart.)
@allisonwyss.bsky.social
I don’t think I’ve been lost. she/her
And a book(!): SPLENDID ANATOMIES (Shirley Jackson Award Finalist, 2022)
https://www.allisonwyss.com
And a book(!): SPLENDID ANATOMIES (Shirley Jackson Award Finalist, 2022)
https://www.allisonwyss.com
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Power and Vulnerability: A Review of Splendid Anatomies by Allison Wyss
There used to be a horror movie critic in the pink section of the San Francisco Chronicle, Joe Bob Briggs, who would end his reviews with a tally of boobs, bodies, and pints of blood spilled — more be...
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I want to post something that I can pin, so I guess I'll share this review of my book (Splendid Anatomies) that I can only read if I want joy to fill my heart such that it overwhelms me and I fall down in intense but exquisite pain.
(But that probably won't happen to you! It's just a good read.)
(But that probably won't happen to you! It's just a good read.)
Here's how we recover from that atrocity. We know they never made it out. They're all hooked to Henry. Or maybe it's Will now. Don't wait through the credits for that reveal. Just know it in your heart.
January 2, 2026 at 6:23 PM
Here's how we recover from that atrocity. We know they never made it out. They're all hooked to Henry. Or maybe it's Will now. Don't wait through the credits for that reveal. Just know it in your heart.
Exceptions abound, but often in stories and movies where a whole world is destroyed, the handful of survivors skip processing that trauma. They get upset when there's a new death among their group and they even go back to pre-disaster loss.
January 2, 2026 at 2:01 PM
Exceptions abound, but often in stories and movies where a whole world is destroyed, the handful of survivors skip processing that trauma. They get upset when there's a new death among their group and they even go back to pre-disaster loss.
I also think it would be strange to have a person cast as the older or younger version of you.
January 1, 2026 at 9:06 PM
I also think it would be strange to have a person cast as the older or younger version of you.
I bet it’s even stranger to age if you’re famous for playing a supernatural being who does not age.
January 1, 2026 at 9:05 PM
I bet it’s even stranger to age if you’re famous for playing a supernatural being who does not age.
So who is resolving to write more flash fiction?
Flash Winter 2026
When: 10 Weeks, Jan. 12, 2026 - Mar. 16, 2026, Mondays 12-2pm (central) (With a promise to get through feedback by 1:30, so no guilt if you have to leave then.)
Where: Online through Zoom
Cost: $200
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January 1, 2026 at 12:32 AM
So who is resolving to write more flash fiction?
A caterpillar is what turns into a butterfly. A callapitter is what I turn into with a sleeping bag pulled to my chin.
January 1, 2026 at 12:07 AM
A caterpillar is what turns into a butterfly. A callapitter is what I turn into with a sleeping bag pulled to my chin.
That moment of imbalance, followed by an instant hanging in the air, when I know I'm going to fall, but haven't hit yet--my instinct is to hope it's at least not a _new_ injury, that I merely aggravate an old one.
(Today's fall wasn't bad--I just like to watch where my mind goes.)
(Today's fall wasn't bad--I just like to watch where my mind goes.)
December 31, 2025 at 8:05 PM
That moment of imbalance, followed by an instant hanging in the air, when I know I'm going to fall, but haven't hit yet--my instinct is to hope it's at least not a _new_ injury, that I merely aggravate an old one.
(Today's fall wasn't bad--I just like to watch where my mind goes.)
(Today's fall wasn't bad--I just like to watch where my mind goes.)
My inbox seems to think the holidays are over this is bullshit.
December 31, 2025 at 2:25 PM
My inbox seems to think the holidays are over this is bullshit.
Your pizza coupon that won’t work has inspired me to order pizza from your competitor.
December 31, 2025 at 12:13 AM
Your pizza coupon that won’t work has inspired me to order pizza from your competitor.
Sure let me sit in my house writing a silly book about a made-up ghost while real armed masked men are terrorizing my neighborhood childcare centers and abducting people as they shovel snow. What is this fucking world.
December 30, 2025 at 8:38 PM
Sure let me sit in my house writing a silly book about a made-up ghost while real armed masked men are terrorizing my neighborhood childcare centers and abducting people as they shovel snow. What is this fucking world.
Casual evening conversation about which of our neighbors they tried to disappear today. Fuck this shit already.
December 30, 2025 at 4:04 AM
Casual evening conversation about which of our neighbors they tried to disappear today. Fuck this shit already.
It was really great! My favorite part is after flying down the hill, your sled eventually glides to a stop and you fall out backwards to lie in the snow, for just a moment, in perfect stillness.
Kid's gonna make me go sledding today. I'll very likely have fun and be glad I did it but wow how strong it is right now that I just don't want to.
December 29, 2025 at 7:11 PM
It was really great! My favorite part is after flying down the hill, your sled eventually glides to a stop and you fall out backwards to lie in the snow, for just a moment, in perfect stillness.
Kid's gonna make me go sledding today. I'll very likely have fun and be glad I did it but wow how strong it is right now that I just don't want to.
December 29, 2025 at 3:30 PM
Kid's gonna make me go sledding today. I'll very likely have fun and be glad I did it but wow how strong it is right now that I just don't want to.
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I'm running my flash class again starting Jan. 12. Write a whole lot of new stories, learn a lot of fun craft techniques, get a lot of supportive feedback, and make friends too! Zoom, 10 weeks, Mondays 12-2 CST, $200
Flash Winter 2026
When: 10 Weeks, Jan. 12, 2026 - Mar. 16, 2026, Mondays 12-2pm (central) (With a promise to get through feedback by 1:30, so no guilt if you have to leave then.)
Where: Online through Zoom
Cost: $200
...
forms.gle
December 22, 2025 at 12:32 AM
I'm running my flash class again starting Jan. 12. Write a whole lot of new stories, learn a lot of fun craft techniques, get a lot of supportive feedback, and make friends too! Zoom, 10 weeks, Mondays 12-2 CST, $200
I can only roll a strike if somebody goes to the bathroom and I play their turn.
December 27, 2025 at 10:20 PM
I can only roll a strike if somebody goes to the bathroom and I play their turn.
You don't need to know everything that's happening. Just do the part that you can do.
December 27, 2025 at 5:17 PM
You don't need to know everything that's happening. Just do the part that you can do.
I feel like the tale of the vaccine giver who got the bandaid stuck to his glove belongs with the tape discourse on gift wrapping/unwrapping day.
December 25, 2025 at 3:54 PM
I feel like the tale of the vaccine giver who got the bandaid stuck to his glove belongs with the tape discourse on gift wrapping/unwrapping day.
Now we argue, as we wrap gifts for the child, about which of the year’s various household repairs was which person’s present to the other.
December 25, 2025 at 2:35 AM
Now we argue, as we wrap gifts for the child, about which of the year’s various household repairs was which person’s present to the other.
Christmas ghost.
December 23, 2025 at 9:57 PM
Christmas ghost.
So I also did my regular gingerbread house. But I also tried enough Lincoln log style gingerbread to confirm it would work that way, at least small scale.
December 23, 2025 at 7:59 PM
So I also did my regular gingerbread house. But I also tried enough Lincoln log style gingerbread to confirm it would work that way, at least small scale.
If you’re making frosting, you can swap out the milk for eggnog. Possibly won’t last as long sitting out (I don’t know?) but it’s good.
December 23, 2025 at 7:33 PM
If you’re making frosting, you can swap out the milk for eggnog. Possibly won’t last as long sitting out (I don’t know?) but it’s good.
Big Absorbancy doesn't want you to know that your diapers and period products are opening tiny portals to another universe.
December 23, 2025 at 3:13 PM
Big Absorbancy doesn't want you to know that your diapers and period products are opening tiny portals to another universe.
Mortar and pestle-ing hard candies for stained glass windows like the witch that I am.
December 22, 2025 at 9:09 PM
Mortar and pestle-ing hard candies for stained glass windows like the witch that I am.
I shouldn’t have posted that on cookie day! You will question the deliciousness of my cookies! Don’t do that! I make great cookies! They do not taste AT ALL like the averaging of vegetables! They are joy!
December 22, 2025 at 8:27 PM
I shouldn’t have posted that on cookie day! You will question the deliciousness of my cookies! Don’t do that! I make great cookies! They do not taste AT ALL like the averaging of vegetables! They are joy!
If you somehow averaged the flavor of all vegetables, you would get rutabaga.
December 22, 2025 at 8:25 PM
If you somehow averaged the flavor of all vegetables, you would get rutabaga.