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Posts by Steph Charette

I know, intellectually, I am making progress on the move back to Ontario but EVERYTHING IS CHAOS right now.

Which feels like the process for every story I've written -- though at least with a story, I can close the laptop.

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How a flawed idea is teaching millions of kids to be poor readers For decades, schools have taught children the strategies of struggling readers, using a theory about reading that cognitive scientists have repeatedly debunked. And many teachers and parents don't kno...

how did i go so long not knowing we were literally teaching people to read wrong. i knew something wasn't right but jesus christ www.apmreports.org/episode/2019...

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I purged so many books before I moved here, but dang it, I want them this time. ๐Ÿ˜…

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Yup, back to Ontario!

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I am so annoyed at myself!! And that second copy, I went and sourced on like used bookstores because it was totally out of print! Aiyiyi

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That feeling when you find a duplicate book and you've already packed the one with the ugly cover but you're still want to keep the nice cover so you decide to deal with it four provinces away from now. ๐Ÿ˜ญ

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Can someone develop a time machine, then go back to each time I'm in a bookstore to screech, "STEPHANIE YOU WILL HAVE TO MOVE EACH OF THESE BOOKS ONE DAY!? Think about Future You!"

Who is currently surrounded by boxes. ๐Ÿ˜ญ๐Ÿ˜ญ๐Ÿ˜ญ

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My cat's new name is, "You will get some when I get some." ๐Ÿ™„

(Let me have a bite of my breakfast, plz??)

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(On TikTok my avatar is a drag queen in a shark costume so I don't know why they are in my DMs.)

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(Coming on a tad strong there, K.)

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A PLETHORA of REEVES (and an alleged manager) on TikTok who really want to get me in touch with Keanu.

A PLETHORA of REEVES (and an alleged manager) on TikTok who really want to get me in touch with Keanu.

A PLETHORA of REEVES (and an alleged manager) on TikTok who really want to get me in touch with Keanu. ๐Ÿคฃ๐Ÿคฃ๐Ÿคฃ

This timeline, I suppose it's theoretically possible.

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So straight I choose the wrong straight.

But a strait of coffee? That'd be some gooood swimming. ๐Ÿ˜‚

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snow white from snow white and the seven dwarfs is drinking coffee from a coffee pot . Alt: snow white from snow white and the seven dwarfs is drinking coffee from a coffee pot .

The problem with really good coffee strait from your French Press is that it can convince your body it doesn't need breakfast.

"problem" ๐Ÿ˜Œ

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Come join us!

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Zuck: The average American has three friends:

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Okay Canada.
PLEASE don't fuck this up.

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Picked up a cute set of macaron shaped erasers that smelled like they'd been pulled out of a twenty-year tire fire.

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Oh god that would be hilarious tho

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If the eraser looks like food, you have a legal obligation that it also SMELL like food.

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Just grabbed the ebook! (Also that cover is HOT.)

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I wouldn't be either! HUZZAH! Can't wait to get my hands on it.

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I am SO READY for this election. This will be the most pivotal election in my lifetime. What's happening down south cannot be allowed to travel north an inch further.

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Throwback Thursday: 'Hothouse Flower' by Stephanie Charrette - PULP Literature Take a step back and sideways in time to a steampunk garden with 'Hothouse Flower' by Stephanie Charette, from Issue 9, Winter 2016

Hey, a throwback Thursday from @pulpliterature.bsky.social -- my story Hothouse Flower, a steampunk-dryad tale:
pulpliterature.com/throwback-th...

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SEVERANCE IS THE BEST. {flail flail flail flail}

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(the drumsnare-punchline of it all is that I already OWN that book on burnout)

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Is it funny or telling that while looking at a book on witchcraft, the bookselling website algorithmically offers up a book on burnout?

Asking for a friend.

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a woman in a red dress says " party " in front of an imdb logo Alt: a woman in a red dress says " party " in front of an imdb logo

And we've crossed the line into novella territory.

w h e e e e

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Analog TV screen, blue with green letters, all caps, with the line: DOES THIS STORY EVERY END?!

Analog TV screen, blue with green letters, all caps, with the line: DOES THIS STORY EVERY END?!

Yes still in the *checks notes* novelette though we're likely to tip over that when I type in all my long hand notes.

Serious question:

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Because I can, I'm doing a complete watch/binge of the entire rebooted [BLANK] OF THE APES movies, and wow, they did Caesar *so dirty* - even the people that "loved" him. Especially those that loved him.

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If you get on the back entrance of the bus, you suck. Full stop, no excuses. I see kids do it, I see adults, I see little grannies do it to beat each other to a seat. Translink remove the back pass already--this is transportation anarchy. ๐Ÿ˜‚

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