Alyson Mosquera Dutemple
@swellspoken.bsky.social
Writer/Worrywart, Editor/Instructor, She/Her.
Repped by lgr literary
Millay Arts
NJ Council on the Arts Fiction Fellow
Words in lit mags
https://open.substack.com/pub/alysonmosqueradutemple
www.alysondutemple.com
Repped by lgr literary
Millay Arts
NJ Council on the Arts Fiction Fellow
Words in lit mags
https://open.substack.com/pub/alysonmosqueradutemple
www.alysondutemple.com
Pinned
Pour one out for the chain-smoking grannies
Introducing MARVELOUS FREAKS OF NATURE! (my BOOK)
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I HAVE A BOOK COMING OUT! My debut!
I can’t explain how excited I am, but in this post, I make an attempt anyway. (I also give a shout-out to the chain-smoking grannies of my life. Give it a read, a subscribe, or share it with your own MARVELOUS FREAKS OF NATURE!)
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I can’t explain how excited I am, but in this post, I make an attempt anyway. (I also give a shout-out to the chain-smoking grannies of my life. Give it a read, a subscribe, or share it with your own MARVELOUS FREAKS OF NATURE!)
open.substack.com/pub/alysonmo...
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One job ticked off. Seventeen to go.
May 26, 2025 at 11:55 AM
One job ticked off. Seventeen to go.
“A good writer, like a good reader, has a mind’s ear.”
#sundaysentence
Ursula K. Le Guin’s Steering the Craft: A 21st-Century Guide to Sailing the Sea of Story
#sundaysentence
Ursula K. Le Guin’s Steering the Craft: A 21st-Century Guide to Sailing the Sea of Story
May 25, 2025 at 11:36 AM
“A good writer, like a good reader, has a mind’s ear.”
#sundaysentence
Ursula K. Le Guin’s Steering the Craft: A 21st-Century Guide to Sailing the Sea of Story
#sundaysentence
Ursula K. Le Guin’s Steering the Craft: A 21st-Century Guide to Sailing the Sea of Story
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“Let’s call her Diane. Let’s say she was one of my best friends when I was in junior high. Let’s say I still think about a certain birthday party of hers…”
On girl bands and book bans. Would love for you to check it out
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On girl bands and book bans. Would love for you to check it out
open.substack.com/pub/alysonmo...
Did Bananarama ruin my middle school friendship? No. But it didn't help.
On girl bands and book bans.
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May 17, 2025 at 6:47 PM
“Let’s call her Diane. Let’s say she was one of my best friends when I was in junior high. Let’s say I still think about a certain birthday party of hers…”
On girl bands and book bans. Would love for you to check it out
open.substack.com/pub/alysonmo...
On girl bands and book bans. Would love for you to check it out
open.substack.com/pub/alysonmo...
“On and on, up and down, the exhausting flux of emotions, locked tight inside you, like a roller coaster in a prison”
#sundaysentence
Paul Murray’s The Bee Sting
#sundaysentence
Paul Murray’s The Bee Sting
May 18, 2025 at 3:03 PM
“On and on, up and down, the exhausting flux of emotions, locked tight inside you, like a roller coaster in a prison”
#sundaysentence
Paul Murray’s The Bee Sting
#sundaysentence
Paul Murray’s The Bee Sting
“Let’s call her Diane. Let’s say she was one of my best friends when I was in junior high. Let’s say I still think about a certain birthday party of hers…”
On girl bands and book bans. Would love for you to check it out
open.substack.com/pub/alysonmo...
On girl bands and book bans. Would love for you to check it out
open.substack.com/pub/alysonmo...
Did Bananarama ruin my middle school friendship? No. But it didn't help.
On girl bands and book bans.
open.substack.com
May 17, 2025 at 6:47 PM
“Let’s call her Diane. Let’s say she was one of my best friends when I was in junior high. Let’s say I still think about a certain birthday party of hers…”
On girl bands and book bans. Would love for you to check it out
open.substack.com/pub/alysonmo...
On girl bands and book bans. Would love for you to check it out
open.substack.com/pub/alysonmo...
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“A strange, sometimes fortuitous, sometimes tragic, aspect of being a human being is that we are born of parents and exist as a fruit cocktail of their personalities and genes.”
#sundaysentence
Tanya Pearson’s Why Marianne Faithfull Matters
#sundaysentence
Tanya Pearson’s Why Marianne Faithfull Matters
May 11, 2025 at 1:47 PM
“A strange, sometimes fortuitous, sometimes tragic, aspect of being a human being is that we are born of parents and exist as a fruit cocktail of their personalities and genes.”
#sundaysentence
Tanya Pearson’s Why Marianne Faithfull Matters
#sundaysentence
Tanya Pearson’s Why Marianne Faithfull Matters
“The really important kind of freedom involves attention and awareness and discipline, and being able truly to care about other people and to sacrifice for them over and over in myriad petty, unsexy ways every day.”
#sundaysentence
David Foster Wallace’s “This Is Water”
#sundaysentence
David Foster Wallace’s “This Is Water”
May 4, 2025 at 12:46 PM
“The really important kind of freedom involves attention and awareness and discipline, and being able truly to care about other people and to sacrifice for them over and over in myriad petty, unsexy ways every day.”
#sundaysentence
David Foster Wallace’s “This Is Water”
#sundaysentence
David Foster Wallace’s “This Is Water”
Proud parent moment happening here ❤️❤️❤️
music.apple.com/us/album/mou...
music.apple.com/us/album/mou...
Mourning Dove by Julian Du Temple on Apple Music
Song · 2025 · Duration 4:54
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April 28, 2025 at 5:36 PM
Proud parent moment happening here ❤️❤️❤️
music.apple.com/us/album/mou...
music.apple.com/us/album/mou...
“When I told my father that the steam from the coffee cup looked like a ballerina dancing, he told me to write a poem.”
#sundaysentence
Yukiko Tominaga’s “My Father” in Bellingham Review, Issue 78
#sundaysentence
Yukiko Tominaga’s “My Father” in Bellingham Review, Issue 78
April 27, 2025 at 3:01 PM
“When I told my father that the steam from the coffee cup looked like a ballerina dancing, he told me to write a poem.”
#sundaysentence
Yukiko Tominaga’s “My Father” in Bellingham Review, Issue 78
#sundaysentence
Yukiko Tominaga’s “My Father” in Bellingham Review, Issue 78
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we are perfect together new jersey we are
a love letter to my state
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a love letter to my state
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New Jersey and You (and me)
A little love note to my state
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April 26, 2025 at 1:47 PM
we are perfect together new jersey we are
a love letter to my state
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a love letter to my state
open.substack.com/pub/alysonmo...
New Jersey and You (and me)
A little love note to my state
open.substack.com
April 26, 2025 at 1:16 PM
we are perfect together new jersey we are
a love letter to my state
open.substack.com/pub/alysonmo...
a love letter to my state
open.substack.com/pub/alysonmo...
This song! So good! Check it out.
And follow on IG @tunesofjdutemple
music.apple.com/us/album/zer...
And follow on IG @tunesofjdutemple
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Zero Degrees by Julian Du Temple on Apple Music
Song · 2025 · Duration 3:32
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April 22, 2025 at 8:36 PM
This song! So good! Check it out.
And follow on IG @tunesofjdutemple
music.apple.com/us/album/zer...
And follow on IG @tunesofjdutemple
music.apple.com/us/album/zer...
Earth Day and Rex Manning Day
A tale of two committees...
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April 19, 2025 at 1:10 PM
“There was nothing as complex in the world—no flower or stone—as a single hello from a human being.”
#sundaysentence
Lorrie Moore’s Birds of America (“Which Is More Than I Can Say About Sone People”)
#sundaysentence
Lorrie Moore’s Birds of America (“Which Is More Than I Can Say About Sone People”)
April 13, 2025 at 1:14 PM
“There was nothing as complex in the world—no flower or stone—as a single hello from a human being.”
#sundaysentence
Lorrie Moore’s Birds of America (“Which Is More Than I Can Say About Sone People”)
#sundaysentence
Lorrie Moore’s Birds of America (“Which Is More Than I Can Say About Sone People”)
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My kid became pen pals with 17-year-old me.
Books really *are* magic.
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April 12, 2025 at 6:38 PM
My kid became pen pals with 17-year-old me.
Books really *are* magic.
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April 12, 2025 at 6:38 PM
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In which I give the art and media I consumed last month a senior superlative. Are you “most likely to read?”
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open.substack.com/pub/alysonmo...
Coolest Exchange Student (and Other Substack Superlatives)
Giving out some rando awards to the books, movies, and music that made my list this month.
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April 5, 2025 at 6:26 PM
In which I give the art and media I consumed last month a senior superlative. Are you “most likely to read?”
open.substack.com/pub/alysonmo...
open.substack.com/pub/alysonmo...
In which I give the art and media I consumed last month a senior superlative. Are you “most likely to read?”
open.substack.com/pub/alysonmo...
open.substack.com/pub/alysonmo...
Coolest Exchange Student (and Other Substack Superlatives)
Giving out some rando awards to the books, movies, and music that made my list this month.
open.substack.com
April 5, 2025 at 6:26 PM
In which I give the art and media I consumed last month a senior superlative. Are you “most likely to read?”
open.substack.com/pub/alysonmo...
open.substack.com/pub/alysonmo...
Reposted by Alyson Mosquera Dutemple
Sometimes writing is like trying to head north aboard a southbound train.
April 4, 2025 at 10:41 AM
Sometimes writing is like trying to head north aboard a southbound train.
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Raise your hand if you, or someone you loved, rocked Coffee Bean lipstick and Cucumber Melon spray in the 90s ✋
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Letter to myself, circa 1994, outside a Natalie Merchant show
I see you there, past me, slumped against the wall of the Cook College Student Center at Rutgers University...
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March 29, 2025 at 5:18 PM
Raise your hand if you, or someone you loved, rocked Coffee Bean lipstick and Cucumber Melon spray in the 90s ✋
open.substack.com/pub/alysonmo...
open.substack.com/pub/alysonmo...
#sundaysentence from Mary H.K. Choi’s Yolk:
“My chest is a too-small shoe for the blood-filled foot of my heart.”
“My chest is a too-small shoe for the blood-filled foot of my heart.”
March 30, 2025 at 1:26 PM
#sundaysentence from Mary H.K. Choi’s Yolk:
“My chest is a too-small shoe for the blood-filled foot of my heart.”
“My chest is a too-small shoe for the blood-filled foot of my heart.”
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"And I’m proud of you for that. You don’t give up so easily. This will serve you in the years to come. You don’t give up easily, and that’s a good way for a writer to be. That's a good way for you to be."
I love, love, love this piece of writing so much by @swellspoken.bsky.social 💙💙💙💙💙
I love, love, love this piece of writing so much by @swellspoken.bsky.social 💙💙💙💙💙
Raise your hand if you, or someone you loved, rocked Coffee Bean lipstick and Cucumber Melon spray in the 90s ✋
open.substack.com/pub/alysonmo...
open.substack.com/pub/alysonmo...
Letter to myself, circa 1994, outside a Natalie Merchant show
I see you there, past me, slumped against the wall of the Cook College Student Center at Rutgers University...
open.substack.com
March 29, 2025 at 6:01 PM
"And I’m proud of you for that. You don’t give up so easily. This will serve you in the years to come. You don’t give up easily, and that’s a good way for a writer to be. That's a good way for you to be."
I love, love, love this piece of writing so much by @swellspoken.bsky.social 💙💙💙💙💙
I love, love, love this piece of writing so much by @swellspoken.bsky.social 💙💙💙💙💙