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Nissa Tolton

Nissa Tolton

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    • Dreaming
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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.
  • Short Fiction
    • Audiobooks
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    • Humor
    • Poetry
  • Notes on Dreaming
  • Notes on Heavens
  • 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
Magnificence Requires no Meaning
  • Philosophy

Magnificence Requires no Meaning

  • Nissa Tolton
  • 19 June 202623 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.

  • Political

America, We Need to Talk

  • Nissa Tolton
  • 6 June 20268 August 2026

America, we need to talk about stupid.

All God’s Children
  • Poetry
  • Salt Island Diaries

All God’s Children

  • Nissa Tolton
  • 1 June 202620 June 2026

Birdie sings a funny song at a Nant House party, 24 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.

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

Consumer freedom

  • Nissa Tolton
  • 21 May 202623 June 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 202623 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!

Good-Bye Harajuku Quotes
  • Good-Bye Harajuku

Good-Bye Harajuku Quotes

  • Nissa Tolton
  • 16 March 202628 May 2026

Quotes from the book

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