Amy Savage
@asavagewriter.bsky.social
Fiction in Bellevue Literary Review, Oyster River Pages, Cleaver Magazine, Barrelhouse, et. al. //#amquerying a novel// www.asavagewriter.com
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"Mother Octopus is broad reaching in scope, cyclical and regenerative like an ecosystem..." @asavagewriter.bsky.social delves into the ecosystem of Sara Giragosian's Mother Octopus on Open Space: northamericanreview.org/open-space/2...
June 6, 2025 at 12:56 PM
"Mother Octopus is broad reaching in scope, cyclical and regenerative like an ecosystem..." @asavagewriter.bsky.social delves into the ecosystem of Sara Giragosian's Mother Octopus on Open Space: northamericanreview.org/open-space/2...
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November 16, 2023 at 5:42 AM
Substack users, this option is OFF by default. If you do NOT want your publication to be used to train AI, open your publication, go to Settings > Publication details and switch it on.
November 15, 2023 at 10:07 PM
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The Onion asked young adults why they were such prudes when it came to their viewing habits, and this is what they said.
Gen Z Explains Why They Want Less Sex In TV And Movies
A new study from the University of California, Los Angeles, found that members of Gen Z want less sex in TV and movies, and instead prefer storylines that feature platonic relationships. The Onion ask...
www.theonion.com
November 1, 2023 at 3:11 PM
The Onion asked young adults why they were such prudes when it came to their viewing habits, and this is what they said.
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The Onion is legit killing it these days www.theonion.com/americans-tr...
Americans Try To Define ‘War Crime’
With the conflict in Gaza provoking debate over what constitutes a violation of international humanitarian law, The Onion asked Americans to define a “war crime,” and this is what they said.
www.theonion.com
October 30, 2023 at 7:36 PM
The Onion is legit killing it these days www.theonion.com/americans-tr...
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"The problem is the human finger. Fingers are too well-engineered to fit around the trigger of an assault weapon. On other planets, life forms have fingers with no joints that are only straight. You don’t hear about gun violence on any of those planets."
The Problem Is the Human Finger
“At the end of the day, the problem is the human heart. It’s not guns. It’s not the weapons.” — Speaker of the House Mike Johnson
- - -The problem ...
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October 30, 2023 at 2:50 PM
"The problem is the human finger. Fingers are too well-engineered to fit around the trigger of an assault weapon. On other planets, life forms have fingers with no joints that are only straight. You don’t hear about gun violence on any of those planets."
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A fun game is to think about this cumulative suffering and lost talent inflicted by sexism against women around the world, across the eons of human life, and slowly sink into an awed horror and grief from which you can’t emerge for a whole afternoon.
sometimes i think about the unbelievable waste of talent that goes into systematically abusing women out of entire industries and the stuff we'll never read and the perspectives we'll never hear and the music that will never drop and i get so angry i could bite a football in half.
EXCLUSIVE: I interviewed a dozen women about what it was like to be a staffer at Jann Wenner’s Rolling Stone (in light of his recent comments.) They described an office culture of “palpable fear” that was “a horrible place for women.”
Full story here: www.thehandbasket.co/p/exclusive-...
Full story here: www.thehandbasket.co/p/exclusive-...
October 24, 2023 at 7:47 PM
A fun game is to think about this cumulative suffering and lost talent inflicted by sexism against women around the world, across the eons of human life, and slowly sink into an awed horror and grief from which you can’t emerge for a whole afternoon.
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Do crocodiles move toward the sound of a crying baby because they want to eat it, or help it? Re-upping this story for the afternoon crew, who I trust will actually read it (and learn how crocodiles and alligators are amazing parents) before mocking me! 🧪
Hush Little Baby, Don’t Say a Word — I Think a Crocodile Heard
The semiaquatic reptiles seemed to be roused to action in a study when they heard recordings of crying human and ape infants.
www.nytimes.com
August 9, 2023 at 6:21 PM
Do crocodiles move toward the sound of a crying baby because they want to eat it, or help it? Re-upping this story for the afternoon crew, who I trust will actually read it (and learn how crocodiles and alligators are amazing parents) before mocking me! 🧪
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Brilliant novelist Madeline Miller writing about her experience with long covid—and the increasingly stigmatized fight to avoid reinfection. Real heart-smasher.
https://wapo.st/3s1vP2i
https://wapo.st/3s1vP2i
August 9, 2023 at 4:38 PM
Brilliant novelist Madeline Miller writing about her experience with long covid—and the increasingly stigmatized fight to avoid reinfection. Real heart-smasher.
https://wapo.st/3s1vP2i
https://wapo.st/3s1vP2i
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“When I was eight a prostitute came to live in our pool house. I use that term—“prostitute”—because that was what she called herself. Her name was Nan.”
New Jamie Quatro in the New Yorker. https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2023/08/07/yogurt-days-fiction-jamie-quatro
New Jamie Quatro in the New Yorker. https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2023/08/07/yogurt-days-fiction-jamie-quatro
“Yogurt Days,” by Jamie Quatro
I wondered if my mother had been risking her life to come here every week, to bring him the yogurt.
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July 31, 2023 at 2:04 PM
“When I was eight a prostitute came to live in our pool house. I use that term—“prostitute”—because that was what she called herself. Her name was Nan.”
New Jamie Quatro in the New Yorker. https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2023/08/07/yogurt-days-fiction-jamie-quatro
New Jamie Quatro in the New Yorker. https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2023/08/07/yogurt-days-fiction-jamie-quatro