I write dark fiction that my mother hates. Anything to do with crime (fiction or non...), fantasy, or science fiction is my jam. My adoration for Shakespeare is probably unhealthy, Zen doodles are my meditation, reading is life, and writing is...me. https://bsky.app/profile/seejennywrite.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/seejennywrite.bsky.social/post/3mftz27wbhi2bThe Books That Built Me (And Will Never See the Light of Day) Years ago I read that, on average, it's the sixth or seventh book that becomes an author's debut. When I heard that, I said to myself: "That will not be you. You'll publish by book three." I even praised myself for being so magnanimous… https://seejennywrite.com/2026/02/27/the-books-that-built-me-and-will-never-see-the-light-of-day/27 Feb 2026 15:18 +0000at://did:plc:qqikpbcusfd7tssse2cvyzim/app.bsky.feed.post/3mftz27wbhi2bhttps://bsky.app/profile/seejennywrite.bsky.social/post/3mcnb3xbppv2lTiny Stories Teaching Big Lessons For me, tiny stories begin with a stray thought. Something I saw on the news. A fear I have. A memory of someone I loved or love still. A friend’s habit. A person I saw out in the world. A photograph. Anything might trigger a tiny story. They are fiction, though… https://seejennywrite.com/2026/01/17/tiny-stories-teaching-big-lessons/17 Jan 2026 18:38 +0000at://did:plc:qqikpbcusfd7tssse2cvyzim/app.bsky.feed.post/3mcnb3xbppv2lhttps://bsky.app/profile/seejennywrite.bsky.social/post/3lykuxxnarm22Fragments We Remember When I got home from the night shift that morning, there was nothing out of place. Nothing strange. I put my keys on the little dish. They rattled. I made dinner (breakfast), ate it, took a shower, put on a nightgown, pulled the curtains, read until I fall asleep. Dreamed… https://seejennywrite.com/2025/09/11/fragments-we-remember/11 Sep 2025 13:44 +0000at://did:plc:qqikpbcusfd7tssse2cvyzim/app.bsky.feed.post/3lykuxxnarm22https://bsky.app/profile/seejennywrite.bsky.social/post/3lt6bdcagnc2iThe Dancer and the Shattered Shell It's like this when dark comes: you get inside. The rule is simple and absolute. Anna is running late after she finishes her audition. The auditorium doors close behind her and lock. The auditors will be there all night -- but dancers can't stay while they… https://seejennywrite.com/2025/07/04/the-dancer-and-the-shattered-shell/04 Jul 2025 22:14 +0000at://did:plc:qqikpbcusfd7tssse2cvyzim/app.bsky.feed.post/3lt6bdcagnc2ihttps://bsky.app/profile/seejennywrite.bsky.social/post/3ll4w5s3imr2qAn Encounter The boy read an article about a lake with a thousand skeletons somewhere in the Himalayas. He's never been to the Himalayas, though his father once climbed Everest. He never imagined he would see a skeleton beneath the ice, but here one is, caught in the weeds by the shore of the… https://seejennywrite.com/2025/03/24/an-encounter/24 Mar 2025 14:00 +0000at://did:plc:qqikpbcusfd7tssse2cvyzim/app.bsky.feed.post/3ll4w5s3imr2qhttps://bsky.app/profile/seejennywrite.bsky.social/post/3lklcv46ra72kA Crack Appears The treadmill stands in my living room, no matter what. So far, it’s moved three times with me. First thing I do when I wake up, first thing I do when I get home, and the last thing I do before going to bed is run. Run, stretch, run, stretch. It’s the only way I feel fully… https://seejennywrite.com/2025/03/17/a-crack-appears/17 Mar 2025 14:00 +0000at://did:plc:qqikpbcusfd7tssse2cvyzim/app.bsky.feed.post/3lklcv46ra72khttps://bsky.app/profile/seejennywrite.bsky.social/post/3lkem24tclz2yDoubt and Community: Weekly Update It was my intention at the beginning of the year to post "accountability" progress reports every Friday. So far, I have failed. But no longer! Welcome to the first weekly update of 2025. While these posts are mostly for me, I'm hoping that my struggles and… https://seejennywrite.com/2025/03/14/doubt-and-community-weekly-update/14 Mar 2025 21:55 +0000at://did:plc:qqikpbcusfd7tssse2cvyzim/app.bsky.feed.post/3lkem24tclz2yhttps://bsky.app/profile/seejennywrite.bsky.social/post/3lk2c62djd42vMethod Acting Allison Beeman was cast as Agatha Christie’s septuagenarian mystery-solver Miss Jane Marple, in A Murder is Announced, at the ripe old age of twenty-two. Something about Allison’s wispy blonde hair, pale skin, and fragile bone structure spoke, “Seventy year old,” to the director of… https://seejennywrite.com/2025/03/10/method-acting/10 Mar 2025 19:32 +0000at://did:plc:qqikpbcusfd7tssse2cvyzim/app.bsky.feed.post/3lk2c62djd42vhttps://bsky.app/profile/seejennywrite.bsky.social/post/3liwmhqap562vCicadas The year is 1888 and you have not been in this much pain since being grazed by a Confederate bullet in 1865. That time, you battled through, knowing what was wrong. This time, the ache is a long-standing mystery. You tell the doctor, when he finally arrives, that your shoulder is immobile.… https://seejennywrite.com/2025/02/24/cicadas/24 Feb 2025 15:00 +0000at://did:plc:qqikpbcusfd7tssse2cvyzim/app.bsky.feed.post/3liwmhqap562vhttps://bsky.app/profile/seejennywrite.bsky.social/post/3liezgs747k2gChalk Outlines Around one a.m., after the third time I’ve woken from restless dreams, I stare at the ceiling and think “I am done with true crime shows.” Normally, I know that I’ve hit my quota of true crime when I start mentally narrating my day in the True Crime Voice. That morning started like… https://seejennywrite.com/2025/02/17/chalk-outlines/17 Feb 2025 15:05 +0000at://did:plc:qqikpbcusfd7tssse2cvyzim/app.bsky.feed.post/3liezgs747k2ghttps://bsky.app/profile/seejennywrite.bsky.social/post/3lhtfwc5txr2nSomewhere North of a Border My husband, finally irritated with me, tells me to leave him alone while he finishes changing the tire. I am happy to do so. Leaving the smell of hot rubber behind is a blessing. He's doing it wrong anyway, so this is going to take a while. We took a wrong turn off a… https://seejennywrite.com/2025/02/10/somewhere-north-of-a-border/10 Feb 2025 15:00 +0000at://did:plc:qqikpbcusfd7tssse2cvyzim/app.bsky.feed.post/3lhtfwc5txr2nhttps://bsky.app/profile/seejennywrite.bsky.social/post/3lhbsnpoagd2yA Shooting As I'm waiting to go up to the choir stands, a girl from the middle school asks me how I ended up in a wheelchair. There's not malice in her question, no insult. She's just curious. There's a small ramp put in just for me, just for this occasion on the school football field. The… https://seejennywrite.com/2025/02/03/a-shooting/03 Feb 2025 15:00 +0000at://did:plc:qqikpbcusfd7tssse2cvyzim/app.bsky.feed.post/3lhbsnpoagd2yhttps://bsky.app/profile/seejennywrite.bsky.social/post/3lh32e4wjny2qAt Least I’m Not a Serial Killer: A Podcast and a Poem On Wednesday I had the chance to sit down with my buddies Holly and Carley, the hosts of We're All Fine--a podcast in which they chat about all kinds of life affirming things, personal struggles, and basically whatever comes into their minds… https://seejennywrite.com/2025/01/31/at-least-im-not-a-serial-killer-a-podcast-and-a-poem/31 Jan 2025 22:29 +0000at://did:plc:qqikpbcusfd7tssse2cvyzim/app.bsky.feed.post/3lh32e4wjny2qhttps://bsky.app/profile/seejennywrite.bsky.social/post/3lgq7i5lh7k2cJuniper In the light of day, six months ago, when she bought the house, the bushes seemed lovely. Charming hedgerows, grown six feet high, provided privacy and a fence of sorts. A wrought-iron gate, only three feet high, filled a gap between the bushes and blocked off the cracking walkway to… https://seejennywrite.com/2025/01/27/juniper/27 Jan 2025 15:02 +0000at://did:plc:qqikpbcusfd7tssse2cvyzim/app.bsky.feed.post/3lgq7i5lh7k2chttps://bsky.app/profile/seejennywrite.bsky.social/post/3lgdoejlz7o2hLeafy & Striped Zen Doodle https://seejennywrite.com/2025/01/22/leafy-striped-zen-doodle/22 Jan 2025 15:23 +0000at://did:plc:qqikpbcusfd7tssse2cvyzim/app.bsky.feed.post/3lgdoejlz7o2hhttps://bsky.app/profile/seejennywrite.bsky.social/post/3lg6m6ctdkk2nStrange Water 1. Constance Gramercy hadn’t attended Harvard and Yale, survived fifteen years in the Space Force, battled her way through the astronaut training program, left her two children behind, and divorced her asshole ex-husband just to die on Mars. She took another deep breath of… https://seejennywrite.com/2025/01/20/strange-water/20 Jan 2025 15:01 +0000at://did:plc:qqikpbcusfd7tssse2cvyzim/app.bsky.feed.post/3lg6m6ctdkk2nhttps://bsky.app/profile/seejennywrite.bsky.social/post/3lfrzuaehzj2kRed Cut Out Neurographic Doodle https://seejennywrite.com/2025/01/15/red-cut-out-neurographic-doodle/15 Jan 2025 15:01 +0000at://did:plc:qqikpbcusfd7tssse2cvyzim/app.bsky.feed.post/3lfrzuaehzj2khttps://bsky.app/profile/seejennywrite.bsky.social/post/3lfmz4nql272qOnly the Wind There are no streetlights in the new development just outside of town, only the dark outlines of modern square homes silhouetted in the half-moon light. Eerie shadows give the xeriscaped lawns a strange texture. If the boxy houses gentrifying this borderland between Elephant Butte… https://seejennywrite.com/2025/01/13/only-the-wind/13 Jan 2025 15:05 +0000at://did:plc:qqikpbcusfd7tssse2cvyzim/app.bsky.feed.post/3lfmz4nql272qhttps://bsky.app/profile/seejennywrite.bsky.social/post/3lfaglc3div23Turquoise & Yellow Zen Doodle https://seejennywrite.com/2025/01/08/turquoise-yellow-zen-doodle/08 Jan 2025 15:01 +0000at://did:plc:qqikpbcusfd7tssse2cvyzim/app.bsky.feed.post/3lfaglc3div23https://bsky.app/profile/seejennywrite.bsky.social/post/3lf3npcmjjw27Leftovers Archie always told me good food was about layers of flavor. When he taught me how to season, he explained the necessity of salt and acid. He showed me how to cook and plate a dish so that it hits your tongue in the right areas, filling the space in your mouth with umami, starting with… https://seejennywrite.com/2025/01/06/leftovers/06 Jan 2025 17:25 +0000at://did:plc:qqikpbcusfd7tssse2cvyzim/app.bsky.feed.post/3lf3npcmjjw27https://bsky.app/profile/seejennywrite.bsky.social/post/3les7rqyklq2uNew Year: 2025 Welcome to 2025 everyone! We have arrived at one of my favorite times of year: a moment to take stock, evaluate, and plan ahead. I love this moment—which also comes around birthday times—because it helps me get my bearings. I get a chance to peruse my internal map, attempt to gauge… https://seejennywrite.com/2025/01/02/new-year-2025/02 Jan 2025 23:22 +0000at://did:plc:qqikpbcusfd7tssse2cvyzim/app.bsky.feed.post/3les7rqyklq2u