@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
One job ticked off. Seventeen to go.
26.05.2025 11:54 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0😂 yep!
26.05.2025 11:58 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0“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
I’m so glad the message got to you 😊
23.05.2025 03:41 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Hi, James! Yay! I’m so glad you saw the comment. I love that story and so have all the students I’ve shared it with. It’s such a wonderful story. One of my favorites to use when teaching dialogue. 😊
22.05.2025 11:48 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Oh how I loved this book!
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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 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
My favorite literary magazine ❤️
18.05.2025 01:02 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0This is pretty perfect
17.05.2025 20:11 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
“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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Why there’s no room for me on the bread bed.
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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
Why there’s no room for me on the bread bed.
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😂😂😂
07.05.2025 10:20 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Agreed! Weird and good is my favorite combo.
06.05.2025 23:15 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0I love that story!
06.05.2025 01:56 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0“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”
Where are my fellow Eponymous devotees? 👋
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Proud parent moment happening here ❤️❤️❤️
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Loved this book.
27.04.2025 15:05 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0I can’t wait to read this!
27.04.2025 15:05 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0“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
Big thanks to @cincinnatireview.bsky.social for publishing the Jersey Devil story I mention in this post 😈💜
26.04.2025 16:21 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Thank you!
26.04.2025 15:34 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Thanks for the share!
26.04.2025 14:44 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
we are perfect together new jersey we are
a love letter to my state
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This song! So good! Check it out.
And follow on IG @tunesofjdutemple
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Say no more, mon amour.
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