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Jennifer Worrell

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Author, library and cat fan. Seeking perfect egg roll. Consciously untwittered. Found in: As It Ought to Be, Quail Bell, Ink Foundry, To L.A. With Love, Hooghly Review, West England Bylines, NECKSNAP, Broken Antler Magazine; more. linktr.ee/JenniferWorrell

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Jennifer Worrell @jworrellwrites.bsky.social · 22d

My bio lists a suspense novel titled Edge of Sundown. Folks have called it "noir"! "Thoughtful"! A "beautifully written slow burn" with "vivid prose"!

However, in traffic today I learned it was written by a "honky jagoff".

Own it now for only $9.99. Support your local jags
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Edge of Sundown

Val Haverford's sci-fi and Western novels made him a household name. But that was a decade ago. Creative stagnation led Val to withdraw into his idyllic cabin at the edge of Chicago's lakefront, as fa...

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Jennifer Worrell @jworrellwrites.bsky.social · 2d

While you're at it, read Timothy Snyder's On Tyranny after. It's short, small, fits in your purse. Devastating yet hopeful.

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On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century

Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century

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Jennifer Worrell @jworrellwrites.bsky.social · 2d

Hey, remember that post about how Hitler's blueprint was taken from America's maltreatment of Natives and Black folks?

Here's where I read about it first (chapter eight, specifically). Highly recommended.
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Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents

The Origins of Our Discontents

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Jennifer Worrell @jworrellwrites.bsky.social · 2d

Powerful work by Claudia Wair. This should be taught in writing classes everywhere.

Claudia Wair @cwtellstales.bsky.social · 14d

My dystopian flash appears in Writers Resist today. It was written after the election around the question plaguing me: What will it mean to be Black in Tr*ump's America? I hope you'll check it out.

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Mural of a black woman holding a copy of Octavia Butler's "Kindred." Mural by Ashley Cathey. Photo credit: Don Sniegowski

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Jennifer Worrell @jworrellwrites.bsky.social · 2d

Finally Hollywood is on my side, dagnabit
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‘Everything that is wrong with the human race’: inside Hollywood’s bizarre war on the leaf blower

For 18 years, Cate Blanchett has railed against the hated garden gadget – and she’s not alone. From Hugh Grant to Danny DeVito, the backpack blower has united stars in unlikely, furious contempt

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Jennifer Worrell @jworrellwrites.bsky.social · 3d

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO 😭

But I wuv my Soul :(
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Jennifer Worrell @jworrellwrites.bsky.social · 3d

Can't wait to see this. In part, bc it sounds awesome. But also bc apparently it was made by our cat. I assumed when we couldn't find her all those times, she'd disappeared to another dimension as black cats do, but she was directing Crispin Glover in a horror movie.

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Jennifer Worrell @jworrellwrites.bsky.social · 4d

Happens every time. I swear I have a brain upstairs.

"I imagine a blurb on the back of a paperback that says, 'Like a period thing, but funny, and good.'"

https:// www.theguardian .com/lifeandstyle/2025/oct/04/tim-dowling-i-love-books-but-cant-remember-anything-about-the-ones-ive-just-read

Jennifer Worrell @jworrellwrites.bsky.social · 6d

I guess we can stop posting that "first they came for" poem

Jennifer Worrell @jworrellwrites.bsky.social · 8d

Nice, congrats!!

Jennifer Worrell @jworrellwrites.bsky.social · 8d

I can't believe they're not just fakin'-til-they-make-it.

Jennifer Worrell @jworrellwrites.bsky.social · 8d

<---not autistic, but I wrote like that too. Maybe not as young as 4th grade, but damn. Ems and semicolons get enough hate as it is.

Jennifer Worrell @jworrellwrites.bsky.social · 8d

"In the few short weeks Monday had been gone, books had gone unread, homework forgotten, tests and papers too exhausting to complete. Why did the hours feel so long, yet the days sped by?"

Oof, this book. Read it in three days because I had to find out what happened.
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Monday's Not Coming

Check out Monday's Not Coming - <p><strong>"Jackson’s characters and their heart-wrenching story linger long after the final page, urging readers to advocate for those who are disenfranchised an...

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Ayo @darrylayo.bsky.social · 10d

A white hard right winger murdered a white hard right winger and the hard right says “the transgender black communists must answer for this”

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Flint Crow @flintcrow.bsky.social · 10d

A bit cold, but also beautiful.

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perry dimes @prdgm.bsky.social · 11d

ya sex is nice but have you ever made a particularly pertinent comment during book club and everyone starts snapping in approval

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Jennifer Worrell @jworrellwrites.bsky.social · 9d

WTF is this?
*Googles*
Oh absolutely fucking not. Every day I learn new ways to become enraged

Jennifer Worrell @jworrellwrites.bsky.social · 9d

Automatic 1-star review if it's cut vertically - or worse, horizontally - like some kind of smoked, cured hellscape

Jennifer Worrell @jworrellwrites.bsky.social · 10d

last night the wind said
be careful girl the
moon be watching

said keep your fingers
out the mud keep your tongue
in your head said the moon

is watching you said she’ll pull
you apart like the tide
when your time comes girl ...

#poetry

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Jennifer Worrell @jworrellwrites.bsky.social · 12d

"I was only half drunk on the porch while watching the sunset./
You came out, snuck up over my shoulder and stomped./
'BOO!'/
But I didn’t flinch./
And that wasn’t fair to you."

Love this #poem and especially this title.
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Lay My Pants In Our Empty Bed and Hump Them, Just a Little by Alex Rost

You got a sleep mask because of my late night reading habit. A nice one. Padded and raised along the edges, like a little room for your eyes. Still, you saw light, even in all that dark. I had on...

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Jennifer Worrell @jworrellwrites.bsky.social · 12d

"The chain-link fence went up one night, an entire globe’s worth of wildlife parachuted in the next. Natural enemies paced in agitated circles, drunkenly staggering off the haze of tranquilizers. A precarious relationship based on mutual confusion."
#flashfiction
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In Defense of Ostriches by Su Mielke

This afternoon, the animal sanctuary is still. Like when you show up at the nursing home after feeding time and all the residents are napping. At least there, birds flutter around the benches, zip ...

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Flight: A Literary Sampler @flightlit.bsky.social · 13d

Lots of litmags had free submission windows for the month that have already closed, but not Flight!

We’re free to submit to, and your submission will be read and discussed by both editors

Send us something!

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Jennifer Worrell @jworrellwrites.bsky.social · 13d

Please, I beg you, @support.bsky.team. Let us hide trending topics forever, not just until you log out.

Jennifer Worrell @jworrellwrites.bsky.social · 14d

True, I didn't realize it didn't consider screenshots, but still. It's a dramatic decrease.

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Jennifer Worrell @jworrellwrites.bsky.social · 15d

omg. I would 100% risk petting the belly

Jennifer Worrell @jworrellwrites.bsky.social · 15d

Ah, that explains some things

The Onion @theonion.com · 16d

Returning Jesus Christ Downed By U.S. Missile Defense 30,000 Feet Before Making Landfall