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Amber Sparks

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Your garbage mom; writer; she/her; I ♥️ unions; essayist on film, books, fairy tales, and horror; wrote AND I DO NOT FORGIVE YOU; HAPPY PEOPLE DON’T LIVE HERE in October; rep’d by Kent Wolf; I just want you to be happy, honey linktr.ee/ambernoellesparks

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Haha yes

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Nice!

25.11.2025 14:15 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Between MST3K in Minnesota and The Onion in Wisconsin I’m confident I’m from the two funniest places in the country and they taught me never to take anything seriously

25.11.2025 03:09 — 👍 38    🔁 0    💬 5    📌 0

AGREE

24.11.2025 19:33 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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"My own little doll family has no memories, no past, no future. They are perpetually unperturbed."

Contributor @ambersparks.bsky.social published an article in @literaryhub.bsky.social! buff.ly/HG3KQvb

24.11.2025 16:30 — 👍 7    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

Thank you so much, Ashley!

24.11.2025 19:33 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Love to be on this list with such an incredible group of writers!

24.11.2025 16:24 — 👍 28    🔁 6    💬 3    📌 0

Oh yay! Love to be here with your wonderful book!

24.11.2025 16:19 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

I just finished "Happy People Don't Live Here" by @ambersparks.bsky.social and I LOVED IT! Fern rules. Read it, folks. Hide in the bathroom with it over Thanksgiving if you need to.

24.11.2025 15:57 — 👍 6    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

This was such a fun conversation - give it a listen this week if you need an excuse to get away from your family!

24.11.2025 15:13 — 👍 27    🔁 6    💬 1    📌 0

Exactly! Sometimes just putting it on a list is enough

23.11.2025 19:57 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

A movie that takes place where you’re from

23.11.2025 17:35 — 👍 29    🔁 1    💬 7    📌 19

And I still don’t like the Beatles!

23.11.2025 17:19 — 👍 5    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Yeah that’s kind of what mine becomes, too!

23.11.2025 16:58 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Haha I had this same experience at the pool one summer - but being pathetically desperate for approval I asked “okay what are all their names” and then I said “okay, um, Joey” and it’s still a family joke that I was in love with Joey from the New Kids (I could not have picked him out of a lineup)

23.11.2025 16:56 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

It usually ends up becoming my “things I will just buy myself, as a treat” list lol

23.11.2025 16:52 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Me: oh this necklace is so pretty, adding it to my Christmas list that no one but me will see, for some reason

23.11.2025 16:50 — 👍 25    🔁 0    💬 5    📌 0

Does anyone else still make a long list of things they want for Christmas every year even though you’re a grown adult and you don’t get presents anymore

23.11.2025 16:49 — 👍 36    🔁 1    💬 6    📌 0

😂😭😂

23.11.2025 16:19 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

So more people will want to be air traffic controllers if I wear a nice dress on the plane? Is that right?

23.11.2025 16:14 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Right? Just the season!

22.11.2025 16:48 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Much like these fries, our society is so cooked

22.11.2025 16:29 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 1

Oh yay!

22.11.2025 16:27 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Oooh I love Sutcliff! And yes to Buried Giant - I reread it last winter - I got a Folio edition for Christmas which is SO beautiful, such a gorgeous experience

22.11.2025 16:27 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

❤️❤️❤️

22.11.2025 16:26 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

But of course!

22.11.2025 16:01 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Winter reading projects:

Rereading The Dark is Rising (with my daughter)
Rereading The Golden Compass (with my daughter)
Rereading Once and Future King
Sylvia Townsend Warner’s biography of T.H. White
The Gormenghast trilogy
Paradise Lost
Vendler’s Dickinson anthology
Wolf Hall books

You?

22.11.2025 16:01 — 👍 45    🔁 1    💬 15    📌 1

I don’t have any grand theories about whether MTG is playing chess or checkers but also, I don’t care

22.11.2025 02:12 — 👍 63    🔁 1    💬 3    📌 0

Yessssssss

22.11.2025 01:34 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

The best song, truly

22.11.2025 01:33 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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