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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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Daring to Define Ourselves

"China Doll's Gift" by humbholthead, used under Creative Commons License

It happened again. A young woman days away from graduating from college was the victim in a murder-suicide. Marcory “Cindy” Caliguiran was 25. The man who murdered her and her friend Kyle Williams was her 54-year-old husband. It happened in one of the parking [...]

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The Cold Light of Tragedy

My principles, when it comes to the art of fiction, tend to be molten: hotly held and hotly defended, but ultimately a fluid thing, able to be shaped and re-formed. But real-life tragedy has a way of turning principles from debatable points of discussion into immutable, inarguable doctrine.

One of my principles, which I often [...]