Jackie DesForges
@jackiewrites.bsky.social
Artist, writer, rep by The Book Group.
www.jackiedesforges.com
www.jackiedesforges.com
Michelle Obama: when they go low, we go high
Gavin Newsom: when they go low, we go to the depths of hell
Gavin Newsom: when they go low, we go to the depths of hell
August 17, 2025 at 12:31 AM
Michelle Obama: when they go low, we go high
Gavin Newsom: when they go low, we go to the depths of hell
Gavin Newsom: when they go low, we go to the depths of hell
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I am accepting submissions for my emerging writer series at gay.submittable.com. You should have three publications or fewer and no book contract. Yes, this is a paid opportunity. Guidelines at the link. Plz follow the guidelines.
Roxane Gay Books & The Audacity Submission Manager
THE AUDACITY, my newsletter, features an emerging writer twice a month. I define emerging writer as someone with fewer than three article/essay/short story publications and no published books or book ...
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March 6, 2025 at 10:44 PM
I am accepting submissions for my emerging writer series at gay.submittable.com. You should have three publications or fewer and no book contract. Yes, this is a paid opportunity. Guidelines at the link. Plz follow the guidelines.
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Medicaid is not for sale.
NASA is not for sale.
The Post Office is not for sale.
America is not for sale.
We have an obligation to resist kings. We outnumber them. And they can be overwhelmed.
NASA is not for sale.
The Post Office is not for sale.
America is not for sale.
We have an obligation to resist kings. We outnumber them. And they can be overwhelmed.
February 21, 2025 at 7:19 PM
Medicaid is not for sale.
NASA is not for sale.
The Post Office is not for sale.
America is not for sale.
We have an obligation to resist kings. We outnumber them. And they can be overwhelmed.
NASA is not for sale.
The Post Office is not for sale.
America is not for sale.
We have an obligation to resist kings. We outnumber them. And they can be overwhelmed.
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Dead or "not dead?" Re-reading @jackiewrites.bsky.social's DEAD from our #Flash405: "Nature" judged by @briannasmykreder.bsky.social. Check out Jackie's flash fiction piece here: expositionreview.com/flash-405/de....
Dead - Exposition Review
by Jackie DesForges 2nd Place – Flash 405, June 2018: “Nature” Fiction “Not dead,” she decides. “Still.” We move our faces closer to the glass. Our noses are pressed against the window; it’s fogging...
expositionreview.com
February 12, 2025 at 5:58 AM
Dead or "not dead?" Re-reading @jackiewrites.bsky.social's DEAD from our #Flash405: "Nature" judged by @briannasmykreder.bsky.social. Check out Jackie's flash fiction piece here: expositionreview.com/flash-405/de....
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if you’re 25 years old with control of the entire treasury system and you don’t delete every student debt file, you are the biggest loser the world has ever seen
February 4, 2025 at 12:04 PM
if you’re 25 years old with control of the entire treasury system and you don’t delete every student debt file, you are the biggest loser the world has ever seen
Whoever said “never meet your heroes” must have had shitty heroes, because mine have always been even cooler in person. Today for Alta Journal I interview Sara Gran, whose new collection of stories Little Mysteries comes out next week 🔮 www.altaonline.com/books/fictio...
The Fine Line Between Before and After
In her collection Little Mysteries, Sara Gran breaks the mold again.
www.altaonline.com
February 3, 2025 at 10:02 PM
Whoever said “never meet your heroes” must have had shitty heroes, because mine have always been even cooler in person. Today for Alta Journal I interview Sara Gran, whose new collection of stories Little Mysteries comes out next week 🔮 www.altaonline.com/books/fictio...
Would be a shame if they never knew a moment’s peace
February 3, 2025 at 1:44 AM
Would be a shame if they never knew a moment’s peace
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Today is the feast of St Brigid. According to legend, Brigid met a nun in 7th century Ireland who had broken her vow of chastity and become pregnant. St Brigid performed a miracle when she laid hands on the woman, prayed, and induced an abortion.
February 1, 2025 at 5:07 PM
Today is the feast of St Brigid. According to legend, Brigid met a nun in 7th century Ireland who had broken her vow of chastity and become pregnant. St Brigid performed a miracle when she laid hands on the woman, prayed, and induced an abortion.
Waiting anxiously for midnight, the end of this God forsaken January, as though it were New Years Eve
February 1, 2025 at 6:52 AM
Waiting anxiously for midnight, the end of this God forsaken January, as though it were New Years Eve
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Yes, this administration is dangerous and cruel, but they are also shockingly dim and incompetent.
Opportunities are everywhere.
Make everything as hard as possible. Resist every demand. Refuse entry without a warrant. Don’t take the buyout. Their problem solving skills are 📉
Opportunities are everywhere.
Make everything as hard as possible. Resist every demand. Refuse entry without a warrant. Don’t take the buyout. Their problem solving skills are 📉
January 30, 2025 at 2:35 AM
Yes, this administration is dangerous and cruel, but they are also shockingly dim and incompetent.
Opportunities are everywhere.
Make everything as hard as possible. Resist every demand. Refuse entry without a warrant. Don’t take the buyout. Their problem solving skills are 📉
Opportunities are everywhere.
Make everything as hard as possible. Resist every demand. Refuse entry without a warrant. Don’t take the buyout. Their problem solving skills are 📉
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Just hit me why AOC is so good and brilliant at being the adult in the room with all the trashy losers making terrible choices around her. She used to be a bartender.
January 26, 2025 at 4:51 PM
Just hit me why AOC is so good and brilliant at being the adult in the room with all the trashy losers making terrible choices around her. She used to be a bartender.
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Kirsten Sundberg Lunstrum recommends books about wild girls by Sarah Moss, Jamaica Kincaid, Carson McCullers and more.
Finding the Wild Girls of Literature (and Following Them Into the Woods)
I started writing about my wild girl, Atalanta—and about Bernadette, the scholar tasked with discovering and revealing Atalanta’s story in order to preserve the girl’s freedom—during the long month…
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January 17, 2025 at 7:30 PM
Kirsten Sundberg Lunstrum recommends books about wild girls by Sarah Moss, Jamaica Kincaid, Carson McCullers and more.
An area larger than Paris
The Eaton and Palisades fires are the second and fourth most destructive in California history, according to CalFire. The total area burned by the Palisades, Eaton and Hurst fires is about 60 square miles, an area larger than Paris.
Los Angeles wildfires: Crews scramble to contain blazes ahead of high winds | CNN
Crews have reported some progress in the battle against LA’s wildfires, but renewed windy and dry conditions could hamper containment efforts. Follow for live updates.
www.cnn.com
January 14, 2025 at 10:18 PM
An area larger than Paris
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The CEO of Watch Duty used his skills as a software engineer to build the app to amplify fire safety information as a public service: “Techies are obsessed with going to Mars and inventing an AGI robot to do art. But I’m obsessed with time and life.” sfstandard.com/2025/01/09/w...
A Bay Area fire tracking app is saving lives — and correcting Elon Musk
Watch Duty has overtaken ChatGPT to become the top free app in Apple’s App Store.
sfstandard.com
January 10, 2025 at 5:07 AM
The CEO of Watch Duty used his skills as a software engineer to build the app to amplify fire safety information as a public service: “Techies are obsessed with going to Mars and inventing an AGI robot to do art. But I’m obsessed with time and life.” sfstandard.com/2025/01/09/w...
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Say what you will about LA Times's feckless ownership, but the reporters on the ground covering this disaster risk their lives to deliver the news. The paper has a really great disaster team.
www.latimes.com/california/l...
www.latimes.com/california/l...
2 dead and more than 1,000 homes, businesses, other buildings destroyed in L.A. County fires
More than 1,000 homes, businesses and other buildings have burned and at least two people are dead in wildfires burning across L.A. County, making this one of the most destructive firestorms to hit th...
www.latimes.com
January 8, 2025 at 5:51 PM
Say what you will about LA Times's feckless ownership, but the reporters on the ground covering this disaster risk their lives to deliver the news. The paper has a really great disaster team.
www.latimes.com/california/l...
www.latimes.com/california/l...
Tracking the fires on Watch Duty with the rest of LA and every time I see a fire turn gray (which means they put it out or contained it) I cheer as though my team just won the fucking Super Bowl
January 8, 2025 at 9:57 PM
Tracking the fires on Watch Duty with the rest of LA and every time I see a fire turn gray (which means they put it out or contained it) I cheer as though my team just won the fucking Super Bowl
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If you ever share / repost anything, please let it be this
December 30, 2024 at 4:26 PM
If you ever share / repost anything, please let it be this
“you’ll be visited by three spirits.”
the three spirits:
the three spirits:
December 24, 2024 at 7:02 AM
“you’ll be visited by three spirits.”
the three spirits:
the three spirits:
Had a dream last night that someone is welcome to use as a short story: three of us traveled to a cabin for a night to have a planning session for a 3-way, but we were unable to schedule said 3-way because we were all too busy and couldn’t get away for another night aside from this planning session
December 18, 2024 at 5:27 AM
Had a dream last night that someone is welcome to use as a short story: three of us traveled to a cabin for a night to have a planning session for a 3-way, but we were unable to schedule said 3-way because we were all too busy and couldn’t get away for another night aside from this planning session
Get in loser we’re making prank calls
“New York state is considering creating a special hotline exclusively for CEOs to report perceived threats”
New Crisis Hotline for CEOs?
Governor of New York wants to protect CEOs
www.kenklippenstein.com
December 17, 2024 at 6:22 AM
Get in loser we’re making prank calls
Actually I think that a world in which billionaires are afraid to exist would ultimately be a much more peaceful, equal one
The brazen murder of a CEO in Midtown Manhattan—and the cheering reaction to his execution—amounts to a blinking-and-blaring warning signal for a society that has become already too inured to bloodshed, @adriennelaf.bsky.social writes. theatln.tc/ZRcsrreK
December 12, 2024 at 12:10 AM
Actually I think that a world in which billionaires are afraid to exist would ultimately be a much more peaceful, equal one
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Nikki Giovanni
(1943-2024)
(1943-2024)
December 11, 2024 at 4:51 AM
Nikki Giovanni
(1943-2024)
(1943-2024)