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Nissa Tolton

Nissa Tolton

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    • Salt Island DiariesShunned by Victorian society at every turn, these women build a society of their own
    • Good-Bye HarajukuLove, speed, capitalism, and post-truth
    • Principle of FlocksHistorical romance, time-travel, and the metaverse
    • Titcomb’s LettersVery particular advice to young people, from 1858 onward.
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  • About
  • Blog
    • Dreaming
    • LGBTQ
    • Philosophy
    • Political
  • Books
    • Salt Island DiariesShunned by Victorian society at every turn, these women build a society of their own
    • Good-Bye HarajukuLove, speed, capitalism, and post-truth
    • Principle of FlocksHistorical romance, time-travel, and the metaverse
    • Titcomb’s LettersVery particular advice to young people, from 1858 onward.
  • Short Fiction
    • Audiobooks
    • Scripts
    • Humor
    • Poetry
  • Notes on Dreaming
  • Notes on Heavens
Salt Island Diaries - A storm is coming
  • Books
  • Salt Island Diaries

The Salt Island Diaries

  • Nissa Tolton
  • 22 June 20222 June 2026

Shunned by Victorian society at every turn, the residents of a cliff-top boarding house create a society of their own.

a man and a woman stand in front of a red convertable 1950s America
  • Books
  • Principle of Flocks

Principle of Flocks

  • Nissa Tolton
  • 13 June 202119 February 2026

Principle of Flocks is a NA novel about love, alternate time-lines, and the most precious commodity in the metaverse: lucidity.

Good-Bye Harajuku
  • Books

Good-Bye Harajuku

  • Nissa Tolton
  • 10 June 202128 May 2025

Good-Bye Harajuku is a series about love, speed, capitalism, and post-truth.⁠⁠ Funny, quirky, and irreverent, it’s deeply philosophical at its core.

women and girls working in a communical kitchen 19th century
  • Historical

The Shakers

  • Nissa Tolton
  • 19 June 202619 June 2026

The Shakers’ mission was to create Heaven on Earth, as a means of preparing for their celestial Heaven. Tips and tricks of the nicest people in America.

Magnificence Requires no Meaning
  • Philosophy

Magnificence Requires no Meaning

  • Nissa Tolton
  • 19 June 202619 June 2026

The so-called big questions are red herrings.

  • Dreaming

Broken Clock People

  • Nissa Tolton
  • 19 June 202619 June 2026

For some troubled beings, a rescue is worse than the problem.

All God’s Children
  • Poetry
  • Salt Island Diaries

All God’s Children

  • Nissa Tolton
  • 1 June 20266 June 2026

Birdie sings a funny song at a Nant House party, September 1847

A well-dressed man and woman face off across a table in a tenement kitchen
  • Dreaming

Shifting Allegiances of Dream Spies

  • Nissa Tolton
  • 28 May 202616 June 2026

Dreaming is not a madness. Awakening is.

Hutterites
  • Political

The Cost of Success

  • Nissa Tolton
  • 28 May 202628 May 2026

The means of success is often the manner in which it ends.

a 19th century woman is overwhelmed by a modern supermarket
  • Capitalism

Consumer freedom

  • Nissa Tolton
  • 21 May 202628 May 2026

There is a pervasive belief in the West that freedom means having many choices. Yet, there is reason to believe the opposite: that it be a system of control.

Evolution Updated for the Third Millennium
  • Philosophy

Evolution Updated for the Third Millennium

  • Nissa Tolton
  • 21 April 202610 June 2026

We are about to be subsumed by an idiocracy that only the patriarchy could have saved us from

Runaway Wives and Widows
  • Historical

Runaway Wives and Widows

  • Nissa Tolton
  • 9 April 202611 June 2026

A secret matriarchy running inside pre-industrial Europe.

A Shaker woman read to orhpans in the shade of a tree
  • Historical

Shaker Heaven

  • Nissa Tolton
  • 16 March 202619 June 2026

One gets into Heaven by being good at it, and that means practice. How Shaker society was so unlike ours, and in this most zen way!

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