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Jessie Lovett
@jesslovett.bsky.social
Best Small Fictions 22 @PitheadChapel @LAReview @NCTE English Journal | ex Perkins waitress | #firstgen PhD | teaching comp 1 & 2 at the community college
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Hiya Bluesky, I’m a poet, fiction writer, English teacher. If I seem familiar it’s probably from this poem
In the before times, I felt annoyed when my college students got whispery with one another in class; now my brain thinks awwwww you found a bestie, so happy for u
October 10, 2025 at 6:52 PM
Stunning fiction piece from the mind of @ashleyespinoza.bsky.social
"Tony's jealous of a lot of shit. He once found a photo of me & a friend kissing at her 19th birthday & called me a dirty whore who deserved to be punished. I thought about that as I came. I was a dirty whore & I did deserve to be punished." -Ashley Espinoza mrbullbull.com/newbull/fict...
September 7, 2025 at 2:40 PM
My poem in the latest NCTE English Journal. Love to all theater the kids
July 18, 2025 at 4:27 AM
Reposted by Jessie Lovett
"Andrew didn’t know how to have real conversations. He only said the same things over & over: the doughnut thing, lines from retro movies, choruses from heavy metal songs. It was like he was afflicted by lyrics & puns & corporate taglines." - @maboswell.bsky.social mrbullbull.com/newbull/fict...
March 4, 2025 at 10:40 AM
Reposted by Jessie Lovett
The secret to getting over writer jealousy is realizing you're not in a competition with your peers. You're in a trauma bond! Wheeee!
January 28, 2025 at 1:41 PM
Reposted by Jessie Lovett
today we have a micro by M.A. Boswell !! in roughly 100 words, Boswell describes a recently broken up couple that consoles themselves with Taylor Swift songs & angry pancake making

read it !

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NOT HANDLED WITH CARE by M.A. Boswell
After Olivia tore out of the parking lot, Hyundai stuffed with all the nice shit from their place, Josh mixed batter and slammed it into a bruised Teflon pan. He’d survived on easy food before, when o...
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January 11, 2025 at 12:21 PM
Short story idea: violent dystopian matriarchy where your clan=your child’s HS sport/activity

Setting: isolated rural west town, pop 24k
December 16, 2024 at 12:24 PM
Watched my Spotify Wrapped story and am shook at what a big sappy sack of romantic shit I was all year
December 4, 2024 at 10:49 PM
Reposted by Jessie Lovett
I’m starting to read today for my @publishedbyjake.bsky.social guest call, you’ve got a couple more days to get me your best fuck around and find out break up hookup callback fall down texts 🖤🖤

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November 29, 2024 at 9:24 AM
Hiya Bluesky, I’m a poet, fiction writer, English teacher. If I seem familiar it’s probably from this poem
November 28, 2024 at 6:02 PM
when you accidentally use the salutation

Hell Class,

instead of

Hello Class,

in your Canvas course announcement
October 12, 2023 at 1:43 PM
I don’t affirm the divinity of football nor do I observe games, but my cultural tradition is Buffalo Bills, my ancestors haunt the ruins of Bethlehem Steel and the post office facilities of the southtowns
October 8, 2023 at 4:39 PM
Sub window for my new lit mag will be announced via geocache, gps coordinates will appear after you watch a rickroll from a link hidden in my website’s privacy policy
October 2, 2023 at 6:14 PM
Do it, what’s the worst that could happen
Simultaneously submit all that shit, we do not all know each other like they do in New York
October 1, 2023 at 3:13 PM
I played the bassoon
I can’t imagine any Bsky early adopter was cool in high school, so what kind of loser were you?
October 1, 2023 at 4:12 AM