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Amy Savage

@asavagewriter.bsky.social
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Fiction in Bellevue Literary Review, Oyster River Pages, Cleaver Magazine, Barrelhouse, et. al. //#amquerying a novel// www.asavagewriter.com

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North American Review @northamerreview.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
"Mother Octopus is broad reaching in scope, cyclical and regenerative like an ecosystem..." @asavagewriter.bsky.social delves into the ecosystem of Sara Giragosian's Mother Octopus on Open Space: northamericanreview.org/open-space/2...
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Alan Baxter @alanbaxter.bsky.social · 16/11/2023
Substack users, this option is OFF by default. If you do NOT want your publication to be used to train AI, open your publication, go to Settings > Publication details and switch it on.
Screenshot of the setting in question - Block AI training
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Amy Savage @asavagewriter.bsky.social · 15/11/2023
Look at @thesusanito.bsky.social go!! Congratulations, Susan! www.pw.org/content/page...
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The Onion @theonion.com · 01/11/2023
The Onion asked young adults why they were such prudes when it came to their viewing habits, and this is what they said.
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Gen Z Explains Why They Want Less Sex In TV And Movies
A new study from the University of California, Los Angeles, found that members of Gen Z want less sex in TV and movies, and instead prefer storylines that feature platonic relationships. The Onion ask...
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Amber Sparks @ambersparks.bsky.social · 30/10/2023
The Onion is legit killing it these days www.theonion.com/americans-tr...
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Americans Try To Define ‘War Crime’
With the conflict in Gaza provoking debate over what constitutes a violation of international humanitarian law, The Onion asked Americans to define a “war crime,” and this is what they said.
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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 30/10/2023
"The problem is the human finger. Fingers are too well-engineered to fit around the trigger of an assault weapon. On other planets, life forms have fingers with no joints that are only straight. You don’t hear about gun violence on any of those planets."
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The Problem Is the Human Finger
“At the end of the day, the problem is the human heart. It’s not guns. It’s not the weapons.” — Speaker of the House Mike Johnson - - -The problem ...
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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 24/10/2023
A fun game is to think about this cumulative suffering and lost talent inflicted by sexism against women around the world, across the eons of human life, and slowly sink into an awed horror and grief from which you can’t emerge for a whole afternoon.
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Elizabeth Preston @inkfish.bsky.social · 09/08/2023
Do crocodiles move toward the sound of a crying baby because they want to eat it, or help it? Re-upping this story for the afternoon crew, who I trust will actually read it (and learn how crocodiles and alligators are amazing parents) before mocking me! 🧪
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Hush Little Baby, Don’t Say a Word — I Think a Crocodile Heard
The semiaquatic reptiles seemed to be roused to action in a study when they heard recordings of crying human and ape infants.
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Erin Kissane @kissane.myatproto.social · 09/08/2023
Brilliant novelist Madeline Miller writing about her experience with long covid—and the increasingly stigmatized fight to avoid reinfection. Real heart-smasher. wapo.st/3s1vP2i
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Garth Greenwell @garthgreenwell.bsky.social · 31/07/2023
“When I was eight a prostitute came to live in our pool house. I use that term—“prostitute”—because that was what she called herself. Her name was Nan.” New Jamie Quatro in the New Yorker. www.newyorker.com/magazine/2023/08/…
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“Yogurt Days,” by Jamie Quatro
I wondered if my mother had been risking her life to come here every week, to bring him the yogurt.
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