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.)
It’s just unfathomable how so many people can be so awful. I want to curl up in a ball and stop learning about how horrible people can be. And I swear to god if you tell me I should already know (I fucking do!) I’ll block you.
November 13, 2025 at 3:55 PM
It’s just unfathomable how so many people can be so awful. I want to curl up in a ball and stop learning about how horrible people can be. And I swear to god if you tell me I should already know (I fucking do!) I’ll block you.
It’s important to occasionally think “I wonder if I’m in a time loop” because remembering the previous time you wondered is the only way to be certain you have at least moved forward from that other one.
November 13, 2025 at 2:34 PM
It’s important to occasionally think “I wonder if I’m in a time loop” because remembering the previous time you wondered is the only way to be certain you have at least moved forward from that other one.
I'm happy for everyone getting their hopes up and I hope you're right, but I'm going to skip this single cycle of hopes up then dashed. I'll catch up again later.
November 12, 2025 at 8:35 PM
I'm happy for everyone getting their hopes up and I hope you're right, but I'm going to skip this single cycle of hopes up then dashed. I'll catch up again later.
Reposted by Allison Wyss (But the abyss... It's still in my heart.)
I got to talk to the really brilliant Emily Mitchell about her fantastic new collection The Church of Divine Electricity for @adroitjournal.bsky.social . Read what we said to each other!
(Particularly love her thoughts on care in dystopian times.)
(Particularly love her thoughts on care in dystopian times.)
A Conversation with Emily Mitchell
Emily Mitchell is the author of The Last Summer of the World (W. W. Norton), a novel, and two collections of short stories: Viral (W. W. Norton, 2015); and The Church of Divine Electricity, winner …
theadroitjournal.org
November 3, 2025 at 4:28 PM
I got to talk to the really brilliant Emily Mitchell about her fantastic new collection The Church of Divine Electricity for @adroitjournal.bsky.social . Read what we said to each other!
(Particularly love her thoughts on care in dystopian times.)
(Particularly love her thoughts on care in dystopian times.)
Take a picture of the sky, Minneapolis.
November 12, 2025 at 1:37 AM
Take a picture of the sky, Minneapolis.
Like, if all we really argue about is whether it’s incompetence, cowardice, or collusion—that’s actually pretty fucking united.
November 11, 2025 at 2:52 PM
Like, if all we really argue about is whether it’s incompetence, cowardice, or collusion—that’s actually pretty fucking united.
Reposted by Allison Wyss (But the abyss... It's still in my heart.)
Look at me interviewing @tricialockwood.bsky.social od.bsky.social , for @therumpus.net , like some sort of big shot.
We talked about WILL THERE EVER BE ANOTHER YOU, the fluid borders between mind and body, self and other, individual and world, and the mystifying effects of Long Covid.
We talked about WILL THERE EVER BE ANOTHER YOU, the fluid borders between mind and body, self and other, individual and world, and the mystifying effects of Long Covid.
Joining the World: A Conversation with Patricia Lockwood - The Rumpus
“A lot of pandemic novels were about a place where everyone could get away from it and not directly have to deal. I totally understand that, but as a person who was writing about it from the very begi...
therumpus.net
November 8, 2025 at 6:28 PM
Look at me interviewing @tricialockwood.bsky.social od.bsky.social , for @therumpus.net , like some sort of big shot.
We talked about WILL THERE EVER BE ANOTHER YOU, the fluid borders between mind and body, self and other, individual and world, and the mystifying effects of Long Covid.
We talked about WILL THERE EVER BE ANOTHER YOU, the fluid borders between mind and body, self and other, individual and world, and the mystifying effects of Long Covid.
The flavor of a tootsie roll is brown.
November 9, 2025 at 10:06 PM
The flavor of a tootsie roll is brown.
I don’t care about high school or college but if somebody arranged a reunion of all the scumbags I hung out with in my twenties, I’d be really curious.
November 9, 2025 at 5:36 PM
I don’t care about high school or college but if somebody arranged a reunion of all the scumbags I hung out with in my twenties, I’d be really curious.
I'm helping coach my 10yo's volleyball team. The team won and the vibe was kind of like everybody thought it was very rude of us to do that.
November 9, 2025 at 2:00 AM
I'm helping coach my 10yo's volleyball team. The team won and the vibe was kind of like everybody thought it was very rude of us to do that.
Look at me interviewing @tricialockwood.bsky.social od.bsky.social , for @therumpus.net , like some sort of big shot.
We talked about WILL THERE EVER BE ANOTHER YOU, the fluid borders between mind and body, self and other, individual and world, and the mystifying effects of Long Covid.
We talked about WILL THERE EVER BE ANOTHER YOU, the fluid borders between mind and body, self and other, individual and world, and the mystifying effects of Long Covid.
Joining the World: A Conversation with Patricia Lockwood - The Rumpus
“A lot of pandemic novels were about a place where everyone could get away from it and not directly have to deal. I totally understand that, but as a person who was writing about it from the very begi...
therumpus.net
November 8, 2025 at 6:28 PM
Look at me interviewing @tricialockwood.bsky.social od.bsky.social , for @therumpus.net , like some sort of big shot.
We talked about WILL THERE EVER BE ANOTHER YOU, the fluid borders between mind and body, self and other, individual and world, and the mystifying effects of Long Covid.
We talked about WILL THERE EVER BE ANOTHER YOU, the fluid borders between mind and body, self and other, individual and world, and the mystifying effects of Long Covid.
I give the dad’s number again and again. I write it on forms. I include it on group texts. I give it yet again. No one will call him. No one will text him. It is only the mom. Only the mom.
November 7, 2025 at 4:59 PM
I give the dad’s number again and again. I write it on forms. I include it on group texts. I give it yet again. No one will call him. No one will text him. It is only the mom. Only the mom.
I wrote about Margaret LaFleur's "All's Well" and a gorgeous moment beyond words. @margosita.bsky.social
“All’s Well” and Dialogue Beyond Words | The Loft Literary Center
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November 6, 2025 at 2:24 PM
I wrote about Margaret LaFleur's "All's Well" and a gorgeous moment beyond words. @margosita.bsky.social
Let me crab about something other than my real sorrow see they used to send me a roster in table form and I could copy everyone's email at once to send them first day materials now I have to pull out each email address individually what is this injustice i will not stand for it everything sucks
November 5, 2025 at 8:53 PM
Let me crab about something other than my real sorrow see they used to send me a roster in table form and I could copy everyone's email at once to send them first day materials now I have to pull out each email address individually what is this injustice i will not stand for it everything sucks
Love the celebrations but it also kinda sucks to watch while still nail biting.
November 5, 2025 at 4:44 PM
Love the celebrations but it also kinda sucks to watch while still nail biting.
Ok, I want my city to win too, but goddamn that big win is good good good. Hell yeah.
November 5, 2025 at 2:42 AM
Ok, I want my city to win too, but goddamn that big win is good good good. Hell yeah.
Final (maybe?) door knocking thread. The hardest thing is it gives me hope. I talk to all these people who share my values, and it feels like we can really change things, really improve people’s lives. But then, not always, but too often, we still lose. And it hurts really bad.
November 4, 2025 at 11:06 PM
Final (maybe?) door knocking thread. The hardest thing is it gives me hope. I talk to all these people who share my values, and it feels like we can really change things, really improve people’s lives. But then, not always, but too often, we still lose. And it hurts really bad.
Having voted early, I’m suddenly sad that I won’t get to see the election worker who tells me every time that she has never seen my last name before.
(Rank Omar Fateh, DeWayne Davis, Jazz Hampton—let’s do this Minneapolis.)
(Rank Omar Fateh, DeWayne Davis, Jazz Hampton—let’s do this Minneapolis.)
November 4, 2025 at 2:47 PM
Having voted early, I’m suddenly sad that I won’t get to see the election worker who tells me every time that she has never seen my last name before.
(Rank Omar Fateh, DeWayne Davis, Jazz Hampton—let’s do this Minneapolis.)
(Rank Omar Fateh, DeWayne Davis, Jazz Hampton—let’s do this Minneapolis.)
Nobody who would hang out on Bluesky would actually rank Frey, right? RIGHT?
November 3, 2025 at 5:41 PM
Nobody who would hang out on Bluesky would actually rank Frey, right? RIGHT?
I got to talk to the really brilliant Emily Mitchell about her fantastic new collection The Church of Divine Electricity for @adroitjournal.bsky.social . Read what we said to each other!
(Particularly love her thoughts on care in dystopian times.)
(Particularly love her thoughts on care in dystopian times.)
A Conversation with Emily Mitchell
Emily Mitchell is the author of The Last Summer of the World (W. W. Norton), a novel, and two collections of short stories: Viral (W. W. Norton, 2015); and The Church of Divine Electricity, winner …
theadroitjournal.org
November 3, 2025 at 4:28 PM
I got to talk to the really brilliant Emily Mitchell about her fantastic new collection The Church of Divine Electricity for @adroitjournal.bsky.social . Read what we said to each other!
(Particularly love her thoughts on care in dystopian times.)
(Particularly love her thoughts on care in dystopian times.)
Oh my god of all replies to just stop with it’s any version of “you think this good thing now but you’re bad because you haven’t always thought it.” It’s an asshole thing to say (even if it’s sometimes true) but it’s also supremely unhelpful in getting folks to share your vision.
November 3, 2025 at 2:11 PM
Oh my god of all replies to just stop with it’s any version of “you think this good thing now but you’re bad because you haven’t always thought it.” It’s an asshole thing to say (even if it’s sometimes true) but it’s also supremely unhelpful in getting folks to share your vision.
Another annoying doorknocking post because it's gotv and that's where my head is. There are a million great reasons not to want to talk to canvassers. But! I wonder if folks realize what a great, easy way it is to make yourself heard by the candidates (present/future lawmakers). +
November 1, 2025 at 11:41 PM
Another annoying doorknocking post because it's gotv and that's where my head is. There are a million great reasons not to want to talk to canvassers. But! I wonder if folks realize what a great, easy way it is to make yourself heard by the candidates (present/future lawmakers). +
Excessive amounts of candy makes me need to play the theme songs from the cartoons of my childhood and every single one is excellent. They went so hard.
November 1, 2025 at 1:25 PM
Excessive amounts of candy makes me need to play the theme songs from the cartoons of my childhood and every single one is excellent. They went so hard.
It’s important to alternate the gummy fruity ones with the chocolatey nutty ones.
November 1, 2025 at 1:15 AM
It’s important to alternate the gummy fruity ones with the chocolatey nutty ones.
God I’m an asshole for shit posting about Halloween candy. It’s bullshit that anybody ever has to be hungry for any reason at all.
October 31, 2025 at 4:35 PM
God I’m an asshole for shit posting about Halloween candy. It’s bullshit that anybody ever has to be hungry for any reason at all.