About

Jennifer de Guzman is a writer and comics publishing professional living in the San Francisco Bay Area. She writes stories about sad girls, seawater, bottomless wells, airborne plagues, and horses. You can find links to some of them them in the Selected Works section or read them at her Scribd page.

What Are Possible Impossiblities?

“The Poet ought rather to chuse Impossibilities, provided they have Resemblance to the Truth, than the Possible, which are Incredible with all their Possibility.”
- Henry Fielding, quoting Aristotle in The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling

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The Year of Image?

I left the office about twenty minutes early today because my brain stopped working. I think it was just beginning to comprehend what happened in the past month.

I started as Image Comics’ PR & Marketing Director on January 17, five weeks before Image Expo. Everyone was in a flurry of organizing — and [...]

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Faking It, Chapter Two, Part Three - Cabal

Cabal

Jamie and I, like most teenage girls, were plotters. A joint operation on the Pellicci brothers resulted in success only for Jamie, in the sense that after a few months of dating, the younger Pellicci broke up with her over the phone.

That’s how these things go, I counseled her at the time. [...]

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Faking It: Chapter Two, Part Two - Grunge

Grunge

In the summer before my sophomore year, my best friend Jamie and I discovered grunge, god help us.

I have to take some time here to write about Jamie because she was basically the most important person in my life from the ages of thirteen through sixteen. In adolescent years, [...]

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Reel Around My Fountain

Cover by Jason Pedersen

Hey, everyone! I wrote a story based on one of my favorite Smiths songs, “Reel Around the Fountain” for Unite and Take Over Volume Two drawn by Traci Hui. It’s being Kickstarted, so please do what you can to support it and spread the news. We have only four days to meet [...]

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Faking It: Chapter Two, Part One - Gone with the Wind

Gone with the Wind

I’ve been trying to be breezy and not terribly analytic here because 1. Who wants to read an intense, psychologically probing account of the life of someone with no real problems? 2. I tend to over-think everything.

I over-thought things in my freshman year of high school. I was [...]