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Michaela Tamma

@michaelatamma.bsky.social

Writer. Venetian 🎭 in Finland. Big fan of typewriters, fountain pens, clay teapots. SL Bath Flash Fiction Award, Fish Publishing Flash Fiction Prize. 3rd prize Writers Bureau Competition. HC Manchester Fiction Prize.

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A bowl of freshly-picked winter chanterelles, brown caps and mustard-coloured stems

A bowl of freshly-picked winter chanterelles, brown caps and mustard-coloured stems

Autumn

04.10.2025 07:44 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Experimenting with different notebook formats. At first glance a regular TN 11x21cm gives me leaflet vibes, but I’m attracted to the reduced page space. Potentially liberating.

01.10.2025 07:32 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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I used to shrivel inside whenever I received a damaged-in-transit book. Now I’m more like, this book needs extra love. This one is The Odyssey, (beautifully) translated by Daniel Mendelsohn. Dented, a bit torn ❤️

31.08.2025 10:37 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

GF chocolate cake with a secret ingredient: grated beetroot - adds moisture, and interesting hues.

28.08.2025 17:54 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Are print newspapers on the path to extinction? I hope not. Ebooks have not terminated printed books, it is possible to have the best of both worlds.

28.08.2025 16:04 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Currently listening to A Little Trickerie by Rosanna Pike. I like audiobooks, they conjure up the tradition of oral storytellers, but the other day I browsed through a physical copy of the novel at the local bookshop and I didn’t recognise the narrator’s voice. Good or bad, not sure.

23.08.2025 12:49 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Sweet temperatures in Venice these days, like the summers of my childhood.

21.06.2025 15:39 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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I’m a paparazzo to the hedgehogs

01.06.2025 13:19 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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The Five Orange Pips and Other Cases #currentlyreading

26.05.2025 11:42 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Stories I like: The Rest is Silence by @brechtdp.bsky.social

24.05.2025 08:55 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0

Stories I like: Three Plagues by @ivygrimes.bsky.social

23.05.2025 07:56 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0
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Harvard’s unofficial copy of Magna Carta is actually an original, experts say Document issued by Edward I in 1300 was bought by law school library for just $27 in 1946

That’s what I call a bargain

15.05.2025 09:31 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Wow, it’s so nice when a writer of this calibre finds the time. Makes me appreciate his work even more. Thanks for sharing!

12.05.2025 13:57 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Rereading Butler’s From Where you Dream, after a 10-year hiatus. It makes sense now, in ways it did not before.

12.05.2025 08:09 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 2    📌 0

Good life advice too :) 🙏

09.05.2025 11:11 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I loved it!

09.05.2025 11:05 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Win or Lose No voting system is flawless. But some are less democratic than others.

All those fascinated by The Conclave’s processes should check out the procedure for electing a venetian Doge. Tamper-proof. Ish.

www.newyorker.com/magazine/201...

08.05.2025 08:26 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Powerful, and moving. Congratulations!

08.05.2025 03:33 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

The irony of living near an airport: listening to takeoffs 24/7 makes me want to travel on horseback.

07.05.2025 07:03 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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