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Jennifer de Guzman is a writer and comics editor 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.

Contact Jennifer de Guzman at blog@jenniferdeguzman.com

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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Inky Flowers, Part Three

It’s all over but the last gigantic chrysanthemum. After a two-and-a-half hour session that at one point had me perilously light headed, here are the results:

The day after my birthday is my final appointment.

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Inky Flowers, Part Two

It was eleven p.m. the night before my tattoo appointment, and I was anxious. The artist hadn’t sent me his concept sketch and I was freaking out about irreversibly altering part of my body. I have holes punched here and there (earlobes, top of ear, nose, navel), but nothing so obvious and ostentatious as a [...]