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Deep Woods of Philly | Sometimes Writer | Spoonie Crew | Accidental Startupper | Words in BULL, Corporeal, Underbelly Press, Bookends Review, etc. https://linktr.ee/lisadellaporta

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Lisa @lisadellaporta.bsky.social · Jul 12

Stoked to have some of my flash fiction in this month's edition of Underbelly Press. Click through to read 'Forbidden Fruit.'

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Issue Four | Underbelly Press

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Lisa @lisadellaporta.bsky.social · 13h

And yet for some reason, insurance doesn't count teeth as bones 🤔

Lisa @lisadellaporta.bsky.social · 21h

Scary/wicked cool.💥

Lisa @lisadellaporta.bsky.social · 1d

Fracture buds 🤝

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Lisa @lisadellaporta.bsky.social · 1d

Yeahhhh. I fell down some stairs but luckily they think it will heal without surgery.

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Lisa @lisadellaporta.bsky.social · 1d

I know it's ancient tech at this point, but I will never not be wowed by xrays. It's your bones! You can see INSIDE TO YOUR BONES. What a time to be alive.

An X-ray film of a left foot. The toe to the right of the pinky is broken in three places.

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Lisa @lisadellaporta.bsky.social · 1d

I audibly groaned when she got handed the duffle bag.

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Lisa @lisadellaporta.bsky.social · 2d

Broke my foot and I'm anticipating a lot of stationary time to kill in the near future. Send me your recs for the last excellent book you read or movie you watched. (Nothing medically scary, please 😅)

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Jaws 🦈 @gonejoshin.bsky.social · 5d

Rubbing a cats stomach is a form of self care

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Lisa @lisadellaporta.bsky.social · 5d

I'm a lifelong jinx for the Phills and my act of goodwill to the people of Philadelphia is that I did not watch any of the games last night, just lurked on social updates. They did all that on their own. 💀

Lisa @lisadellaporta.bsky.social · 10d

**Keanu voice** Whoah

Lisa @lisadellaporta.bsky.social · 14d

Big Blue Marble, Wooden Shoe, H&H, A Novel Idea all for new stock. For used, AIDS Thrift, Book Corner, Mostly Books.

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Lisa @lisadellaporta.bsky.social · 15d

Hear it whispered by strangers commiserating on the bus. Feel it hanging in the air as people scroll through their phones in line for the streetmeat carts in center city. Even our DA held town halls, where instructions were shared for what to do and how to prepare.

Not if, but when.

Lisa @lisadellaporta.bsky.social · 15d

And the delay - is it a sign of respect? Fear? Acknowledgement of what we can (and will) do when provoked? Climb poles. Throw batteries. Destroy robots. Turn our expressway into a swimming pool.

Lisa @lisadellaporta.bsky.social · 15d

Watching the federal government send troops into fairly tame metros while living in a city with a reputation for its mayhem even when we’re happy is odd. Is there an order of importance to the deployments? Are we being judged against others for levels of…. Something?

A painted image of the French revolution. Men with bayonets in period appropriate clothing fight. Lady Liberty is center front. Her face has been replaced crudely with a cutout of the mascot Gritty's face.

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Lisa @lisadellaporta.bsky.social · 22d

Why did no one warn me that a significant part of aging is looking down at random appendages, finding weird bruises, and having zero memory of how they happened.

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Lisa @lisadellaporta.bsky.social · 28d

I've been experimenting with BlueSky lists and so far the organizer in me is loving them. For my writing and submitting followers, here's a list of every lit mag I've come across on BS, which gives you a specific feed for their calls. Who am I missing? bsky.app/profile/did:...

Lisa @lisadellaporta.bsky.social · 29d

See also: the bike race-eve tradition of rocketing down the wall in whatever non-bike wheeled object you can find.
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Midnight Madness

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Lisa @lisadellaporta.bsky.social · 29d

Circa 2013: my first race and a big part of what sold me on NW Philly

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Lisa @lisadellaporta.bsky.social · 29d

This is the only good thing about this garbage heap of a year and I am SO EXCITED.

PhillyVoice.com @phillyvoice.com · 29d

The Philadelphia Cycling Classic, returning next August after a 10-year hiatus, will use the original course through Center City, Manayunk and Fairmount Park.

Ex-Mayor Michael Nutter helps revive Philadelphia Cycling Classic, saying race will be 'force for unity' in 2026

The event, returning after a 10-year hiatus, will use the original course through Center City, Fairmount Park and Manayunk.

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