About

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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Humanity in Fiction

I began writing this post a year ago, the day my niece was murdered. I received the horrendous news before I finished it. Ironically, it was supposed to be about the responsibility of writers to their humanity, about the need for writers to be aware of  fiction’s relationship with reality when it depicts pain [...]

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All We Ever Wanted

About ten years ago, after a couple of bad jobs and something of an emotional meltdown, I took a little more than a year off to work on my writing. The result was about a score of short stories of varying quality (a couple of them received honorable mention in their respective years of [...]