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Jess Chua

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Jess enjoys reading and writing dark fiction and thoughtful prose.

She also takes great delight in exploring the essay, flash fiction, and poetry genres.

Her debut chapbook about heartbreak, let it rip , was published in late summer 2023 via Bottlecap Press.

A Musepaper.org essay prize winner, her poems, flash fiction, and essays have appeared in or are forthcoming in 34th Parallel Magazine, The Five-Two, and Whale Road Review. Her genre work has appeared in Mystery Tribune and Black Hare Press anthologies.

Her hobbies include yoga, sketching, astrology, and slowly overcoming her occasional speech anxiety through microcasting.

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• The One, Monthly Musepaper Award (essay)
• Hands (crime flash fiction) in Mystery Tribu ...more

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Day 30 — Reflective Closing

I’m not entirely sure why I embarked on this 30‑day challenge in the first place!

I think I realized that narrating here was helping with the narration I occasionally do on my tiny YouTube channel (@JessWriting), and I wanted to see if I could complete a full 30‑day cycle while navigating a couple of big life transitions in the background, including moving and an intended career pivot.

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	The 50-Word Stories of 2021: Microfiction for Lovers of Quick Reads by Jessica Bell (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Carolyn R. Russell (Contributor), Peter Snell (Contributor) 4.53 avg rating — 15 ratings — published 2021	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Drabbledark III: An Anthology of Dark Drabbles (Shacklebound Books) by Eric S. Fomley (Goodreads Author), Liam Hogan, Dawn Vogel (Goodreads Author) 4.10 avg rating — 10 ratings — published 2024 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Gluttony (Seven Deadly Sins, #6) by Ben Thomas (Editor), D. Kershaw (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Carina Bissett (Goodreads Author) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 2021 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Watch (Five Hundred Fiction, #3) by Ben Thomas (Editor), D. Kershaw (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Cassandra Angler 4.20 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 2021 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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No pretensions: just poetry. Stop by, recommend books, offer up poems (excerpted), tempt us, taunt us, tell us what to read and where to go (to read No pretensions: just poetry. Stop by, recommend books, offer up poems (excerpted), tempt us, taunt us, tell us what to read and where to go (to read it!) Goodreads honors wordsmiths: poets and poetry promoted and prompted here. ~~~ "Poetry is the synthesis of hyacinths and biscuits." -- Carl Sandburg “God has a brown voice, as soft and full as beer.” —Anne Sexton On Clouds – “…what primitive tastes the ancients must have had if their poets were inspired by those absurd, untidy clumps of mist, idiotically jostling one another about…” —Yevgeny Zamyatin “If the poet wants to be a poet, the poet must force the poet to revise. If the poet doesn’t wish to revise, let the poet abandon poetry and take up stamp-collecting or real estate.” —Donald Hall “Poetry is a rich, full-bodied whistle, cracked ice crunching in pails, the night that numbs the leaf, the duel of two nightingales, the sweet pea that has run wild, Creation’s tears in shoulder blades.” —Boris Pasternak “Wanted: a needle swift enough to sew this poem into a blanket.” —Charles Simic “Language is a cracked kettle on which we beat out tunes for bears to dance to, while all the time we long to move the stars to pity.” —Gustave Flaubert “Poetry is not an expression of the party line. It’s that time of night, lying in bed, thinking what you really think, making the private world public, that’s what the poet does.” —Allen Ginsberg. ~~~~~ Amy King, Moderator Amy King is the recipient of the 2015 Winner of the WNBA Award (Women’s National Book Association). Her latest collection, The Missing Museum, is a winner of the 2015 Tarpaulin Sky Book Prize. She serves on the executive board of VIDA: Women in Literary Arts and is co-editing with Heidi Lynn Staples the anthology, Big Energy Poets of the Anthropocene: When Ecopoets Think Climate Change. She is also co-editing the anthology, Bettering American Poetry 2015, and is an Associate Professor of Creative Writing at SUNY Nassau Community College. ...more

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