John See (he/him)
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John See (he/him)
@jseewrites.bsky.social
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Writer of fiction, nonfiction, poetry, plays. Union guy. Researcher. We are what we repeatedly do.
My published work is in Allium, Poetry Salzburg Review, On the Run, Midsummer Dream House, RavensPerch, The Closed Eye Open, In These Times.
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Headline: Scientists say they’ve figured out age if Earth’s oldest rock. Image: A smiling 102-year-old man.
June 27, 2025 at 3:34 PM
It must be so strange to be someone like @chrislhayes.bsky.social and have a fictional House Majority Leader call you his”little buddy.”
A photo of a page from a novel in which a character threatens to go on All In to expose a president’s affair and efforts to cover it up.
April 20, 2025 at 11:42 AM
Adventures in tariffs.
A photo of a package of cashews. “A product of Benin, Burkina Faso, Cambodia, Ghana, Guinea-Bissau, India, Indonesia, Ivory Coast, Mozambique, Nigeria, Tanzania, Togo, Vietnam. Processed and Packaged in Vietnam.”
April 12, 2025 at 8:04 PM
I’m going to risk wearing my TdA socks today.
Two red socks with an image of Michael Jordan jumping and holding a basketball with one hand. A version of this image as a tattoo is part of the Trump administration’s formula for identifying people to deport, claiming it signifies membership in the Salvadoran gang TdA.
April 1, 2025 at 2:05 PM
$5.79 in DC.
Irrelevant, of course, because we DC residents are told we don’t live in real America.
Screenshot of egg prices from Wegman’s website.
March 18, 2025 at 3:43 PM
This is not true. Here's bank charging $37 overdraft fees, according to Nerdwallet.
www.nerdwallet.com/article/bank...
A screenshot from Nerdwallet's website showing that Fifth Third Bank charges $37 for overdrafts.
February 27, 2025 at 8:54 PM
A screenshot from the Woodforest Bank website showing that the bank charges $32 overdraft fee.
February 27, 2025 at 8:45 PM
I'm enjoying Richard Powers' Playground, a novel about life and oceans and then some.
Many, many terrific passages like this introduction of a minor character (could become major -- I'm still reading).

#booksky
Wen Lai laughed when people called his shop the Chinese Store. He was born on Makatea, went to high school in Tahiti, had family in Singapore and California, spoke both French and the local strain of Pa’umotu better than many, majored in business at the University of Melbourne, and sounded to Palila, when he spoke English, like Paul Hogan. He had come back to Makatea after discovering that he really wanted to spend his days reading science fiction and doing philosophy. The store happened to be up for sale. Powers, Richard. Playground: A Novel (p. 146). W. W. Norton & Company. Kindle Edition.
February 8, 2025 at 10:39 AM
My wife said stand over there and I’ll take a picture.
An apparently oblivious man in a winter coat, arms folded, smiling. Behind him is a store window with a sign that reads “Out of Fashion since 1998.” In fact, the man has been out of fashion since the 1960s.
December 31, 2024 at 4:12 AM
This, from Gabrielle Zevin’s Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow, is everything.
A screenshot of a passage from the novel. Marx, upon moving into the house he and Sadie have bought, discovers a persimmon tree in the yard and says it’s his favorite fruit. Sadie wonders whether this is the reason for Marx’s seemingly unfailing good fortune: that Marx “sees everything as a fortuitous bounty.” She wonders whether it is favorite fruit or, anyway, whether it was before he spotted the tree.
November 12, 2024 at 3:13 PM
April 3, 2024 at 12:12 AM
I'm looking forward to two of my poems appearing in the Spring 2024 issue of Poetry Salzburg Review. Thrilled that I get to be part of an issue with this lovely cover art.
www.poetrysalzburg.com/psr41.jpg
#poetry
Cover artwork by Steven Kenny. A right hand holding a small branch. A cardinal sits on the pinkie. A slug crawls on the arm. A butterfly hovers nearby.
January 13, 2024 at 5:06 PM