Jess Bowers

YouTube video by remhq R.E.M. - Wall of Death (Official Audio)

let me take my chances on the wall of death

www.youtube.com/watch?v=UuMW...

I wonder what it’s like to experience Taylor Swift without critical thinking skills

It's the vest/hat combo

The feminine urge to wander into the wilderness, oblivious to having simultaneously won a major award

Just told my crew!

Psst: am also happy to/hoping to jump in on an off-site reading...I promise to bring the funny!

And my AWP '26 trip is now fully funded! See you there?

Ann Radcliffe eating hard cheese right before bed to give herself nightmares, Stoker claiming Dracula was the result of a nightmare induced by a “too generous helping of dressed crab,” let’s go back to the golden age of eating incredibly rich food before bed to create horror literature

You know, this app might be in the middle of repressing critical voices while giving lenient treatment to aggressive transphobes, but at least it's also increasingly bad at book promotion and lit talk, my main reason for being anywhere online anymore

I feel seen. I write soooo slow now. I don't know how to boost my momentum. None of the old tricks are working!

Me in 2020: cranking out one short story per week.
Me in 2025: passing a story like a kidney stone once every three months.

If we stop talking about Taylor Swift we will die

Many are being forced to by your school's administrators.

banned books week…..a great time to buy a bunch of insanely famous books

none of this would have happened if Hamlet wasn't such a loser nerd. quit yapping with your dead relatives and hit the gym you emo bitch #grindset

does she like.... know... what happened to ophelia. does she really know

i'm sorry but I can't stop thinking about how funny it is to write a song called "the fate of ophelia" and have it be an upbeat pop song about your quarterback boyfriend. thank god I found a man so I don't have to kill myself

Oh, prime numbers. Behave!

On days when you wake up feeling like you want to scream, Robyn Hitchcock helps.

pssst, wanna read a weird book of short stories about horses that will destroy your notion of what "horse books" are and who they're for and make you want to buy a mule?

bookshop.org/p/books/hors...

I'm so sorry, Dan. I had to.

My feelings about Banned Books Week are that no indeedy parents do NOT have the right to decide what their own children read, because children are human beings with the right to dignity and privacy.

Agreeing w the parents rights premise shifts the Overton window in the wrong ass direction.

for forty years I have fed upon dry salted fare—fit emblem of the dry nourishment of my soil!

I highly recommend News Tower. You manage an old timey newspaper, from the reporters to the resuppliers, while building toward the sky. Like a reverse Fallout Shelter.

J'accuse (1919) is a French silent film about the horrors of World War I. It contains a scene in which dead soldiers rise from their graves and march back to their homes. This could be considered the first on-screen depiction of zombies in cinema history. #WyrdWednesday

or a spine

I strongly dislike him. Is it still worth watching?

Put some quarters in the old Submittable machine this week. Feels good to have new work to send out.

Everything is awful but you can watch Plebs for a while and pretend maybe it's not

queens