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Jessica Dawn
@jessdawn.bsky.social
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Writer at night, animal day job, tired in between. Work in HAD, Rejection Letters, Barren Magazine, Jake, Short Story Long and more. Lots of dog photos.
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Spending my lunch writing more novel in the notes app and hanging out with a very clingy post-op Golden
A red/brown golden retriever wears a big pink inflatable surgical cone covered in little satellites, constellations, and dinosaurs wearing space helmets. She looks up into the camera, head resting on my hand.
November 12, 2025 at 8:36 PM
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Last time we had a border collie at work Brody got a foster sister so what I’m saying is, we’re in trouble
A black and white border collie sits on a brown floor, mouth open, tongue strangely long and hanging out. He is looking up and the camera, big brown eyes, smart and anxious. Behind him is the pale fur of another dog. You can’t tell from the photo but it’s his brother, who is a giant lab. I mean giant, guys, this lab seriously weighs 125 pounds.
November 8, 2025 at 10:27 PM
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Like thirty rows into to a piece in stockinette
Screenshot of the me sowing / me reaping meme. Knitting and purling have been sloppily pasted over the words so it reads “me knitting: haha fuck yeah!!! Yes!! Me purling: well this fucking sucks. What the fuck.”
November 4, 2025 at 12:54 AM
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💕fuck AI💕
we take photos with 100 year old cameras
Photo taken of the ocean from above on a cliff. Waves can be seen breaking in the middle of the photo, the sea calm, sun reflecting off the water. There are thin clouds, blue peeking through. At the bottom of the frame is the rocky cliff, plants. The colors are washed out, pale pink, and there’s red-orange bleeding from the bottom of the photo, a light leak from an old camera.
November 3, 2025 at 2:58 AM
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Literally taking candy from a baby
Brody the blue heeler sits on a sidewalk at night looking up at the camera with a big open mouthed dog grin. He wears a black hoodie and has an orange and black leash with Jack o lanterns on it. Behind him is an orange construction barrier and cone
November 1, 2025 at 3:08 AM
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Flyers around my neighborhood
A white paper flyer stapled to a wooden telephone pole. The flyer says “The day it happens will be / was a big beautiful day.” Big beautiful day are extra bold and large, in a swirly sort of 70s script font. A white paper flyer stapled to a wooden telephone pole. The top right corner of the flyer is folded over, partially obscuring the words. The part we can still read says “Rel the Epstein Files!” In a blocky black font. A white piece of printer paper taped to a telephone pole with clear packing tape. The flyer reads: “PROTECT YOUR NEIGHBORS FROM ICE. If you see ICE call the rapid response line for Alameda County 510-241-4011. If you see someone being detained ask the person their name, date and place of birth. Try to record with your phone. FOR THOSE IN NEED OF FOOD, HOUSING, HEALTH ETC. head to find help.org. LETS STAND UP FOR ONE ANOTHER AND KEEP OUR COMMUNITIES SAFE. BIG LOVE BAY AREA FOREVER.
October 28, 2025 at 8:25 PM
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Please look at my boy
A framed professional photo. Brody the blue heeler sits in front of a blue backdrop. He wears a blue and gold paisley bow tie and looks directly into the camera. His mouth is slightly open like the dog equivalent of a smile. He looks like a little kid in school photos.
October 18, 2025 at 1:23 AM
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Good morning to Brody, who spent yesterday stoned out of his gourd after apparently finding an edible on our morning hike.
Brody the blue heeler lies on a plaid quilt and white towel. His eyes are open and glassy, like he is looking through space and time.
October 9, 2025 at 3:49 PM
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He is obsessed with this tiny tennis ball
Brody the blue heeler lies on a furry blanket and gazes at a small yellow, green, and purple tennis ball that is right next to his big head. He looks wildly focused and determined. The tennis ball is already going fuzzy, has resigned itself to its new life of being smushed between heeler teeth. Brody the blue heeler has a paw over the tennis ball now, his expression still focused but a little more intense, deranged, like he’s going to fight that tennis ball Brody the blue heeler has the tennis ball in his mouth. It fits neatly behind his canines, which must be really satisfying. His eyes are mostly closed. He looks deeply content.
September 27, 2025 at 4:26 PM
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Things I say to my dog on a regular basis:
“Where did you get this belly, did you bring it from home?”
“Why do you need all these legs, this is too many.”
“Give me all your feet.”
“That’s such a big stretch for a small Brody.”
Brody the blue heeler lays on his side on a gray couch, head resting on a golden yellow blanket while he looks up at the camera, vaguely annoyed.
September 20, 2025 at 4:07 AM
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Who told my boy about the state of the world, who has given him this existential crisis
Brody the blue heeler lies curled up on a brown fur pillow, eye full of concern, faraway like he’s staring into an abyss that could also be staring back
September 19, 2025 at 1:12 AM
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My best friend is married to Tonic’s drummer, can confirm The Juice is a mystery
Screenshot of a text message that reads: “I love her. ‘a man bursting’ destroyed me. And yes, we had at least three good songs, and although I knew the Live guys pretty well I never knew what ‘the juice’ was in reference to.”
September 11, 2025 at 5:02 PM
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A n t i c i p a t i o n
Brody the blue heeler lays on a gray couch on a green blanket, staring just above the camera, mouth open, intense and focused. He’s making that “throw the damn ball already” face that dogs make.
September 4, 2025 at 5:32 AM
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Good morning Brody says it’s already hot
Brody the blue heeler stands on a cracked concrete pad, panting. Below him is his shadow, bigger than he is but clearly outlined on the concrete. The shadow really helps illustrate how big his head is.
September 1, 2025 at 6:02 PM
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It’s over 80 in the Bay so it’s too hot to move
Brody the blue heeler lounges on a couch, his big head resting on a pillow while he stares blankly into a too-hot apartment. You can’t tell how hot it is from the photo, just take my word for it.
September 1, 2025 at 2:24 AM
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That kid’s having a great time tho
Picture of a sign posted above an entry gate. Sign says “any minor in possession of alcoholic beverages will be ejected.” There’s a picture with the ghostbusters style no sign over a 12 year old-ish boy double fisting beers with a big excited grin, just having a great time, unconcerned about getting kicked out
August 31, 2025 at 10:18 PM
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It’s important you know that when dogs get laser therapy they have to wear tiny goggles
A black and brown dachshund stands on a table, held in place by a vet tech partially in frame. He wears small dark tinted goggles, which look like the kind of thing you’d put on a dog before they ride a motorcycle. He looks equal parts cool and ridiculous. He does not seem to be having a great time.
August 30, 2025 at 7:52 PM
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The true horror of Captain Trips hitting in 1990
Close up of a passage from a story by Hailey Piper. The important line here reads: “I’m never going to find out who fucking killed Laura Palmer.” Passage is from the short story collection The End of the World as we Know it, story Prey Instinct by Hailey Piper.
August 27, 2025 at 3:55 AM
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Taking a break from nipping heels to use them as a pillow
Overhead shot of Brody the blue heeler lying on a couch with his head resting on my ankle, my legs just visible in the bottom of the frame. I think my foot looks weird in this picture, like it isn’t quite at a natural angle, like I sit on my couch in ways that have to be a little painful or uncomfortable. Maybe the problem is that I think feet always look a little weird. Maybe I do sit weird on my couch. It doesn’t hurt, though. I swear.
August 27, 2025 at 3:52 AM
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Stephen King summer continues
Cover of the short story collection The End of the World as we Know It: new tales of Stephen King’s The Stand. The cover is back with big red block letters, and a crow’s bead pokes up from the bottom right corner. Maybe it’s a raven. I need a bird person to tell me the difference.
August 22, 2025 at 8:32 PM
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Who wants to join bath house book club, it’s a thing I just made up where we sit in a hot tub and talk about books we’re reading.
A weathered wooden wall fills most of the frame. At the bottom is the curved lip of a hot tub, a thicc book and glasses sitting at the edge.
August 22, 2025 at 5:16 AM
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If you want an idea of what life with a heeler is like, please understand that about 50% of the time he doesn’t make his turns and runs into me
August 19, 2025 at 6:48 PM
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Out of office, me and my son are touching grass
Half of Jessica’s face is visible in the top left corner, mostly glasses and wavy red-blonde hair spilled out from under a faded black dad hat. Brody the blue heeler peeks out from behind her shoulder, tongue out and looking at the camera. Behind them, yellow leaves piled on a big rock, trees, gnarled roots, grass growing up a hill.
August 19, 2025 at 6:43 PM
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Stopped into my little hometown bookstore today, never seen an issue of Tin House there before (it’s a bodice rippers and old sci fi kind of place) so feels nice to find this the same day I can say that I got a spot in the next workshop. Sequoia Nagamatsu’s cohort, holla.
Volume 14, number 4 of Tin House’s journal (RIP). The top promises that it features Stephen King and Margaret Atwood. The cover says summer reading, has an illustration of two scuba divers, you know, scuba diving.
August 16, 2025 at 11:49 PM
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Very normal work notes
Picture of a blue post it. On the post it is written: “ate cat poop. Do last.”
August 15, 2025 at 12:47 AM