Allyson Waller

The Orchard "I didn’t care how handsome he was, I wanted the damn apple."

A goal of mine this year is to be more active on my substack and share my creative writing. Today I published a piece of flash fiction I wrote a while back, I hope you’ll give it a read 🍎 (and also give me a follow 💁🏾‍♀️)

12.09.2025 17:34 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Zach Fox smiling with his tongue out

Omg I came back on Bluesky and see I have 1k followers?!? 😳 Hey y’all! 👋🏾 Gonna try to be more active on here, thanks for following ya girl! 💁🏾‍♀️

12.09.2025 17:24 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Indie Bookstores Will Soon Be Able to Sell E-Books Bookshop, a site that lets independent, bricks-and-mortar bookshops sell their books online, is launching an app that will allow the sales of e-books, too.

This is such great news. For so long Amazon has had a chokehold on ebooks. www.nytimes.com/2025/01/28/b...

28.01.2025 14:41 — 👍 2744    🔁 482    💬 35    📌 58

How I surpassed my 2024 reading goal 📚 In 2022, I only read 8 books. This year I read 35, increasing my reading consumption by more than 300%. Here’s how I did it.

Hey Bluesky fam! 👋🏾 In case you didn’t know, I have a Substack! Make sure to subscribe to my newsletter, Swoon 💕 and check out my latest post about how I surpassed my 2024 reading goal! 📚 open.substack.com/pub/makemesw...

30.12.2024 17:40 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

tbh I kinda (i.e. strongly) dislike how some economists talk about things like inflation and healthcare

16.12.2024 21:56 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0

“Where are all these people GOING?! OMG?!?!” - me, a person who is also going somewhere, stuck in traffic

06.12.2024 22:08 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I’m so confused on how all this is supposed to work out 😖

06.12.2024 15:35 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

A Black woman holding a vinyl with a black, green and pink for the movie soundtrack for the film Wicked

My neighbors are about to be sick(er) of me playing this soundtrack!!! A lil commotion for the vinyl pls 😋

01.12.2024 04:47 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

I need Apple to stop it with the updates every 3-6 months 🫠 Now I know how my parents feel when they complain about tech changing too quickly

26.11.2024 16:00 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Seeing wicked for the second time this week, food for the soul 🙂‍↕️

25.11.2024 04:14 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

a woman is laughing while standing in front of a microphone on a stage . Alt: Whitney Houston waving and having fun with a performer on a stage at an award show

Not me logging on to new followers 🤭 hey y’all hey 👋🏾

25.11.2024 04:12 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Is this an opportunity for a rebrand? Much to think about 🤔

14.11.2024 16:21 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0