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GESSwrites

@gesswrites.bsky.social

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Writer of stories about women getting what they want. My short story "Unnoticed" appears in #MixedBagOfTricks, an anthology of 11 short stories by 11 women writers. Finalist in 2025 Fugue Prose Contest Member of Armadillo Authors Society

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GESSwrites @gesswrites.bsky.social · Jul 23

Mixed Bag of Tricks is everywhere,
with stories to shock, delight, and break your heart
by @gesswrites.bsky.social (that's me!),
@ileenieweenie.bsky.social, @roanna.bsky.social,
and more writers of bsky.app/profile/arma...
#MixedBagOfTricks
#ArmadilloAuthorsSociety
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Mixed Bag of Tricks: A Short Story Anthology

A Short Story Anthology

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Kweli Journal @kwelijournal.bsky.social · 3h

See full roster and program schedule at the REGISTRATION link in our bio!

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Kweli Journal @kwelijournal.bsky.social · 3h

See full roster and program schedule at the REGISTRATION link in our bio!

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Photo gallery of faculty at the 2025 Kweli International Literary Festival featuring IWALANI KIM
EBONYA LIA
STEPHANIE MADRID
EMERSON MAHONEY
YASMIN ADELE MAJEED
MEGHA MAJUMDAR
DINAW MENGESTU
YARI MERCEDES
ABHIGNA MOORAKA

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Torch Literary Arts @torchliteraryarts.bsky.social · 18h

Join us for our next Welcome Table Talk - Thinking About Love and the Divine with DaMaris Hill and Ajanaé Dawkins, moderated by Amanda Johnston.

October 21, 2025, at 6pm CT / 7pm ET
Zoom Webinar

RSVP: us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

GESSwrites @gesswrites.bsky.social · 23h

Fact!
Appropriate
verb conjugation
+ adverbial form.

a woman wearing glasses and a blue shirt is screaming and says it done went from worse to worser .

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GESSwrites @gesswrites.bsky.social · 1d

Away.
Making do.
#TeaOfTheDay
is nothing special
for this whole week.

GESSwrites @gesswrites.bsky.social · 2d

I still can't get over Janine calling him "Myke."

a woman with curly hair is smiling and laughing while standing in front of a mirror .

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GESSwrites @gesswrites.bsky.social · 2d

Ooh, that's one of the best MSW episodes! That cast was on fire.

GESSwrites @gesswrites.bsky.social · 2d

MSW has been my "calm down before sleep" show for months now. There's a ROKU channel that ALWAYS has it running.

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GESSwrites @gesswrites.bsky.social · 4d

You're not wrong but
why are you laying his
whole life bare for us to see?

a bald man wearing glasses and a suit sits in front of a blind

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GESSwrites @gesswrites.bsky.social · 4d

Sometimes, convenience
is necessary #TeaOfTheDay:
Starbucks grande #MedicineBall
aka honey citrus mint

GESSwrites @gesswrites.bsky.social · 5d

Start that book blurb with
"intrepid heroine" and I'm out.

a woman holding a fishing rod in front of a sign that says 1

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GESSwrites @gesswrites.bsky.social · 5d

Ugh, another morning without tea... so far. 😢

GESSwrites @gesswrites.bsky.social · 5d

Suleikha!

a man and woman are standing next to each other

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GESSwrites @gesswrites.bsky.social · 5d

But... the ground
can't cause the fumble.

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EveryLibrary @everylibrary.bsky.social · 5d

Email your legislators to support libraries: speakupforlibraries.us

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GESSwrites @gesswrites.bsky.social · 5d

I was reminding Hubby
just the other day
that #InLivingColor did
a live mini episode
during a #SB halftime show
in the 90s and
the racists/xenophobes/intolerant
could do the same
or turn off the TV
or go make the nachos
(his contribution)
or take a piss
or have a quickie
during those 13 minutes.

GESSwrites @gesswrites.bsky.social · 5d

footage of a bear with its mouth open in a field

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GESSwrites @gesswrites.bsky.social · 5d

Or all of the above.

GESSwrites @gesswrites.bsky.social · 5d

How many books would have to have fallen on you to render you unable to get yourself out from under them?

a wall of books stacked on top of each other on a table .

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GESSwrites @gesswrites.bsky.social · 5d

Next show at #MMNT*:
Love, lies, and laughter collide
in this swinging 1960s reimagining of
Shakespeare’s classic comedy,
MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING. After years of war, an Italian town
bursts back to life with romance,
rivalry, and music.
Directed by Robert Tolaro
* at St. Edward’s University

GESSwrites @gesswrites.bsky.social · 5d

a woman in a leopard print shirt says same in a netflix ad

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GESSwrites @gesswrites.bsky.social · 5d

Congratulations!!

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GESSwrites @gesswrites.bsky.social · 5d

I hate getting the
#UncannyValley discomfort
from an actual human being.
It's so very unnerving.

a woman wearing a red shirt that says uc

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PEN America @penamerica.bsky.social · 5d

PEN America: "Rather than overtly censoring reporters, the DoD’s revised policy now includes vague and troubling provisions that allow government officials to label reporters as ‘security risks’ and revoke their credentials simply for seeking information." pen.org/press-releas...

Pentagon's Revised Rules Seek to Intimidate Rather Than Overtly Censor Journalists

PEN America remains deeply concerned today about threatening protocols in place that have the goal of intimidating reporters and even would allow the government to revoke credentials by labelling a re...

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GESSwrites @gesswrites.bsky.social · 5d

Lunchtime #TeaOfTheDay:
#justea African Breakfast
with lunch.

For the record:
I'm much happier if
I have tea in the morning.

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