Jesse Strauss
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Jesse Strauss
@jessestrauss.bsky.social
Writer. In a short story phase right now. It's going...okay.
The only music to be allowed at my funeral is the crossword puzzle jingle.
July 25, 2025 at 10:52 PM
Cutting out the middle man and writing myself some form rejections. Efficiency!
July 20, 2025 at 12:06 AM
Story prompt: a horror piece inspired by the subject line of today's NYT Cooking newsletter.
July 8, 2025 at 3:35 PM
It's not nice to gloat to human beings, but when Microsoft Word gives you red squiggles on a word you KNOW is real, it's proper and correct to feel superior when clicking 'Add to Dictionary.'
July 6, 2025 at 11:48 PM
Amazing how many rabbits this website has decided to show me.
July 1, 2025 at 12:32 PM
Sometimes a guy with a neck tattoo of Jared Leto’s version of The Joker gives you the best haircut you’ve ever gotten in your life. That’s just how life is.
June 29, 2025 at 6:29 PM
Pro tip: if you start your google searches with "-ai" your results won't have that pesky layer of slop on top of the actual information. Saves a tree or two, too.
June 11, 2025 at 4:44 PM
Things the French are better at: resisting the far right, bread, and coming up with names for bendy pieces of metal that hold sheets of paper together.
June 10, 2025 at 5:07 PM
Anyone else scroll through their Submittable graveyard and just laugh and laugh in a "well that was ambitious" kind of way? Like: wow, I was really feeling myself October 4th, 2022.
June 6, 2025 at 4:24 PM
I was tired of screaming into the void. Then I got on here and *became* the void and hey I’m having a blast.
May 28, 2025 at 12:13 AM
First post for my first-ever published story. Thanks @mooncityreview.bsky.social, you’ve put out a banger of an issue filled with the work of intimidatingly-talented folk.
May 19, 2025 at 7:54 PM