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amandakallis.bsky.social
amanda kallis
@amandakallis.bsky.social
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writer, Toronto
☆current: speculative novel
⊙prev: Iowa Writers' Workshop
*･｡ﾟwork in: Black Warrior Review, Cincinnati Review, Catapult, elsewhere
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where are my Ted Chiang stans to back me up on this?
attempted a pangram for the NY Times spelling bee: HEPTAPOD
September 17, 2025 at 4:27 PM
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you should start your day with excerpts from Virginia Woolf’s diary

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SEPTEMBER 25. Yesterday morning I made another start on “The Moths,” but that won’t be its title. . . . Who thinks it? And am I outside the thinker? DECEMBER 26. I wish I enjoyed it more. I don’t have it in my head all day like “The Lighthouse” and “Orlando.” 1930: JANUARY 12. I can now hardly stop making up “The Waves.” . . . What is essential is to write fast and not break the mood. MARCH 17. The test of a book (to a writer) is if it makes a space in which, quite naturally, you can say what you want to say. As this morning I could say what Rhoda said. APRIL 9. It is bound to be very imperfect. But I think it possible that I have got my statues against the sky. APRIL 29. The greatest stretch of mind I ever knew. . . . I suspect the structure is wrong. Never mind.
August 20, 2025 at 11:15 AM
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uh here's a corner of my house. thought the light was nice
dappled light on a teak built-in with a modernist, abstract primary color painting, a stack of speculative fiction books (also in primary colors!), and a noguchi paper lantern.
June 22, 2025 at 1:42 PM
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pls look at this house, the menacing vibe, the scalp sconces, the ball sack on tenterhooks. we need to bring back "yuppie" (derogatory) www.nytimes.com/2024/11/26/r...
a monotone grey living room with a collection of uncomfortable furniture including a standing lamp that is ready to accuse you or eat your face and what appears to be a ball sack on tenterhooks a charcoal grey kitchen with spiked counter chairs, chain mail curtains, and a vase of flowers in medusa- fashion the couple posed with a dog statue, in front of a "scalp" sconce (it looks like how it sounds)
November 27, 2024 at 1:30 PM
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Lyra, observing from her perch above the writing desk, waits for the moment to pounce on my head
calm office scene in neutral tones, featuring electric kettle and narrow windows. Perched on the lofted bunk bed, a calico cat poses (only a little menacingly)
November 17, 2024 at 6:33 PM
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My husband’s novel is officially out today!!! The Diver is macabre and taut, for those who like their horror literary or their literary, dark. Lyra says it’s 10/10 and you should listen to her!!!!!! bookshop.org/p/books/the-...
Calico cat (very cute) poses before a book on a windowsill. Book cover is dominated by coral that almost looks like veins, like blood… (all are similar images)
November 10, 2023 at 1:52 PM
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On Collected Fictions I shared my feeelinggssss and spoilers re the massively popular TOMORROW, AND TOMORROW, AND TOMORROW

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a still of "When Harry Met Sally," when Harry is saying he thinks men and women can't be friends because the sex part always gets in the way
October 7, 2023 at 1:29 PM
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on the modern side, love hige_and_me
instagram grid of interior with plants, concrete walls, bookshelves in modern collector aesthetic
August 22, 2023 at 8:28 PM
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so many, but start with my.life.in.colour
instagram grid of colorful rooms with an eclectic vibe
August 22, 2023 at 8:25 PM