Alyssa Small

Fiction writer, amateur baker, recovering journalist, and podcaster on @wordstruckpod. I mostly just want to read books and pet my dog.

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Reading is just so freaking magical. How did I get so lucky to live in a world with so many beautiful books?

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@amahnke Not to mention: disregarding audiobooks is ableist. Reading is reading is reading. Let’s not tear people down for engaging in stories and learning!

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I don’t get the butter board trend. Y’all just need to take up painting and have a snack.

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@hankgreen OH MY GOODNESS. Why, indeed?! 🫠

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@hollykmichels I slept 11 hours and I don’t even have medical reasons 😬

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@hankgreen You know…you could block him. Anything real he does will end up in the news or elsewhere.

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@mattyglesias What does “membership” mean? Because I’m an active churchgoer and have been all my life, but I haven’t been an official member anywhere. The membership hoops in some of the churches I’ve attended haven’t been worth the effort.

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@kristinnoeline It’s subtle

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@kristinnoeline I CAN SEE A NEW HORIZON 🎷🎷🎷

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@kibblesmith I take the line from the Karate Kid and sub our “fear,” usually for “logic” in: “Fear has no place in this dojo.”

I also tell people “Strength and honor” in wishing them luck, especially if they’re off to do mundane things.

Those are pretty well known, but not often quoted?

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@777librarywhore Perhaps those people are aliens doing an *almost* convincing impression of humans?

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@hankgreen But is that…writers based in Montana? Or writers who heavily market themselves as western writers in Montana?

Ugh. What does it matter. Both are nonsense statements. Montana writers rock.

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@wabermes But be forewarned: An Ember in the Ashes is amazing, and very dark. I cried over that single series more than I have cried over all other books combined.

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@wabermes Hmm, have you read An Absolutely Remarkable Thing yet?

Anything by Ursula Le Guin (The Left Hand of Darkness)

The Mirror Visitor series is a wild fantasy series. One of my favorite reads of the past year.

And I’ll always rec Sabaa Tahir’s Ember in the Ashes series.

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@GavinWoltjer Call it a personal library. It’ll make you feel better about it 😉

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@derekwbrouwer @UncleMontanaRed This is wild.

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@derekwbrouwer WHAT.

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@addi3larue Yeah…he does that.

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@JournalistsLike @nytimes Reminds me of the time my InDesign auto-populated Elton John’s mug with “Putin” as the caption. So glad we caught it before it went to print.

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@blujreviews Having the courage to sit down over and over again to create a world full of problems I’ll need to fix…and then fixing those problems…and then sharing that faulty product with other people…letting it go when it’s done…

Better question: what *isn’t* hard about it?