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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Sartor Resartus: Lisbeth Salander, Look One

Next Wednesday, the Lisbeth Salander-inspired line goes on sale at H & M, and Mariah Huehner and I will be at the doors when they open. In honor of this shopping occasion, I’m making some ShopStyle looks based on descriptions of Lisbeth’s clothes in The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo. This is the first [...]

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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

Autumn by Alphonse Mucha

Last week, I finally did what I’ve been meaning to and I went to Humble Beginnings, a tattoo shop in San Jose, to consult with an artist about the tattoo I want. I’ve had a Mucha-esque composition of chrysanthemums in my mind for some time, but I didn’t find any [...]