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Jess Bowers

@prettyminotaur.bsky.social

180 followers 150 following 150 posts

Animals/videogames/TV/film/history/fiction, and any odd nook where they collide. Debut fiction HORSE SHOW 🐴 out NOW from Santa Fe Writers Project! she/her, phd

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Jess Bowers @prettyminotaur.bsky.social · 7h

I only like the song where she sings ELIZABETH TAYLOR!!! as if she's calling her to the principal's office

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 16h

#WarRavagedPortland

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Jess Bowers @prettyminotaur.bsky.social · 7h

@adamalsirgany.bsky.social ?

Jess Bowers @prettyminotaur.bsky.social · 1d

let me take my chances on the wall of death

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R.E.M. - Wall of Death (Official Audio)

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Sara Romanoski @sjromanoski.bsky.social · 6d

I wonder what it’s like to experience Taylor Swift without critical thinking skills

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Jess Bowers @prettyminotaur.bsky.social · 1d

It's the vest/hat combo

Jess Bowers @prettyminotaur.bsky.social · 1d

The feminine urge to wander into the wilderness, oblivious to having simultaneously won a major award

Jess Bowers @prettyminotaur.bsky.social · 1d

Just told my crew!

Jess Bowers @prettyminotaur.bsky.social · 1d

Psst: am also happy to/hoping to jump in on an off-site reading...I promise to bring the funny!

Jess Bowers @prettyminotaur.bsky.social · 1d

And my AWP '26 trip is now fully funded! See you there?

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Colin Dickey @colindickey.com · 1d

Ann Radcliffe eating hard cheese right before bed to give herself nightmares, Stoker claiming Dracula was the result of a nightmare induced by a “too generous helping of dressed crab,” let’s go back to the golden age of eating incredibly rich food before bed to create horror literature

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John Chrostek @johnchrostek.com · 2d

You know, this app might be in the middle of repressing critical voices while giving lenient treatment to aggressive transphobes, but at least it's also increasingly bad at book promotion and lit talk, my main reason for being anywhere online anymore

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Jess Bowers @prettyminotaur.bsky.social · 2d

I feel seen. I write soooo slow now. I don't know how to boost my momentum. None of the old tricks are working!

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Eric Raglin @ericraglin1992.bsky.social · 2d

Me in 2020: cranking out one short story per week.
Me in 2025: passing a story like a kidney stone once every three months.

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Chris Scott @iamchrisscott.bsky.social · 2d

If we stop talking about Taylor Swift we will die

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Jess Bowers @prettyminotaur.bsky.social · 2d

Many are being forced to by your school's administrators.

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mattie lubchansky @mattielubchansky.com · 3d

banned books week…..a great time to buy a bunch of insanely famous books

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cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 2d

none of this would have happened if Hamlet wasn't such a loser nerd. quit yapping with your dead relatives and hit the gym you emo bitch #grindset

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cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 2d

does she like.... know... what happened to ophelia. does she really know

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cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 2d

i'm sorry but I can't stop thinking about how funny it is to write a song called "the fate of ophelia" and have it be an upbeat pop song about your quarterback boyfriend. thank god I found a man so I don't have to kill myself

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Jess Bowers @prettyminotaur.bsky.social · 2d

Oh, prime numbers. Behave!

Jess Bowers @prettyminotaur.bsky.social · 2d

On days when you wake up feeling like you want to scream, Robyn Hitchcock helps.

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Jess Bowers @prettyminotaur.bsky.social · 13d

pssst, wanna read a weird book of short stories about horses that will destroy your notion of what "horse books" are and who they're for and make you want to buy a mule?

bookshop.org/p/books/hors...

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Jess Bowers @prettyminotaur.bsky.social · 2d

I'm so sorry, Dan. I had to.

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Helena Greer @blumagaincurios.bsky.social · 2d

My feelings about Banned Books Week are that no indeedy parents do NOT have the right to decide what their own children read, because children are human beings with the right to dignity and privacy.

Agreeing w the parents rights premise shifts the Overton window in the wrong ass direction.

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