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Anne Louise Pepper

@annelouisepepper.bsky.social
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Writer, dog and chicken lover, drummer in a geezer band. Ex sp. ed. teacher and school psych, retired in 2023, growing new shoots. Flash pieces in failbetter, The Citron Review, Vast Chasm, Gone Lawn, and The /t3mz/ Review. Aspiring novelist

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Anne Louise Pepper @annelouisepepper.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
Hey! I haven’t been submitting much lately, but I did get into Tiny Molecules: www.tinymolecules.com/issues/issue...
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twenty-six — Tiny Molecules
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Anne Louise Pepper @annelouisepepper.bsky.social · 30/12/2024
The end of 2024 is upon us! I’ve gotten more active on BlueSky recently; here’s my end of the year pub wrap: vastliterarypress.org/2024/07/13/2... www.thetemzreview.com/pepper.html gonelawn.net/journal/issu... and pitheadchapel.com/inferno/ May next year (and the rest of the term) be decent
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How To Survive the Apocalypse
If you catch a frog, eat its legs. If you’re hungry, eat the rest. It doesn’t matter how cool the frog is—its little balloon eyes, how its skin is alien green, how its neck bulges and smooths, how …
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Anne Louise Pepper @annelouisepepper.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
Got one in the most recent edition of Pithead Chapel: pitheadchapel.com/inferno/
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Inferno
Anne Louise Pepper The night my mother asked my father to build a fire, please, he’d snapped a salute and shouted—Yes, sir!—and stomped to the fireplace to screw sheets of newspaper into indignant …
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Anne Louise Pepper @annelouisepepper.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
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Anne Louise Pepper @annelouisepepper.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
That wonderful click when you come to an understanding with a story, and the heavy thing you’re trying to express slips slightly apart from you, less personal, more alive, and can tell you what it needs
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Anne Louise Pepper @annelouisepepper.bsky.social · 12/11/2024
I’ve put away my Harris, Biden, and Obama mugs because they make me sad, and all that’s left is this cherry blossom mug—very nice, the blossoms turn red when it’s hot (supposedly), but no one’s fallen in love
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Anne Louise Pepper @annelouisepepper.bsky.social · 11/11/2024
Appreciating small things—walks in public parks, fresh fruit, dogs, micros, drabbles
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Anne Louise Pepper @annelouisepepper.bsky.social · 10/11/2024
Look at this place! I’m thrilled to be here!!
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