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Jennifer deBie

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Jennifer deBie is a native Texan living in Ireland where she earned an MA in Creative Writing from University College Cork in 2017 and just finished a PhD in Mary Shelley. She has been widely published in the US and abroad, with works appearing in anthologies by Raven Chronicles Press, PactPress, Kallisto Gaia Press, and Manawaker Studios, and in journals like For Women Who Roar and True Chili. When not reading, writing, or teaching, Jennifer enjoys typical millennial pastimes like eating brunch and neglecting her blog, where infrequent updates on her life and writing can be found.

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Jennifer deBie It's the closest thing to magic we're ever going to get. If taking people from all across the earth into a world of my own making with nothing more th…moreIt's the closest thing to magic we're ever going to get. If taking people from all across the earth into a world of my own making with nothing more than paper and ink isn't magic in the purest, truest sense of the world, I don't know what is.(less)
Jennifer deBie How about a micropoem instead?

Ghostship
And when you escape, surface, drown in dark air,
as your crew cries and dies on oil-slick waves,
scream for a res…more
How about a micropoem instead?

Ghostship
And when you escape, surface, drown in dark air,
as your crew cries and dies on oil-slick waves,
scream for a rescue that isn't coming...
We'll be there, messmate,
we always need sailors.(less)
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I am lucky… in a lot of ways, many of which I’ve talked about here, but today I’m going to tell you that I am lucky to be a mildly professional book talker.

Before I became what I am today, I was an enthusiastic amateur book talker, and then I went to school and became an educated book talker (able to use key words and tricky phrases like Proustian, liminal spaces, and bathos with aplomb), and now

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Alternate timelines have knotted in on each other and our young protagonists have to find themselves and each other in order to save the world they're stuck with, and try to create the world they want.

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Was it good? I honestly couldn't tell you - but was it engrossing? Yes, deeply so. If nothing else, Ripley stays true to the strange mix that is cunning naivety in Scarlett O'Hara, at least as I remember her being from the last time I read Gone With ...more
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“-You see, I have it within me still,” you said, and opened your pocket and pulled out a piece of sheet music, the black calligraphy in its careful, blocky dots making the whole thing look like paving stones on a log road. The calligraphy went on and on, and you pulled the entire song out from your skin where you’d kept it, just in case your friend wanted to see it again.”
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