Jessa Forest writes poetry and weird fiction. She is the author of The Slaughter Chronicles, a grimdark, Lovecraftian-esque contemporary fantasy about werewolves, and Speculative E-Shorts, standalone, bite sized short stories for when you need to escape reality for an hour. Her short fiction and poetry has also appeared in traditional print and online magazines. In 2011, she was nominated for the Pushcart Poetry Prize. Her writing questions … Read More about ABOUT JESSA FOREST
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MY FIVE DRAFT PROCESS
This is how I edit all my short stories and how I am slowly transitioning my long fiction writing process (which right now is just get the words on the page and worry about everything else later). FIRST DRAFT Brain dump / discovery writing / getting the scene out of my head and onto the […]
NICK HOLLERAN: DEAD MAN WALKING
Dead Man Walking by David Green My rating: 5 of 5 stars Dead Man Walking is one of the best paranormal private investigator stories I’ve read in a long time. Nick Holleran is both delightfully sarcastic and sympathetic. You really feel for him and you can tell he really feels for other people, even when […]
ECHO: SPECULATIVE E-SHORTS
Don’t drop your Resonator. Don’t let your client die. In that order. Echo’s job is simple: travel instantaneously across universes, attend to the customer whose health is in jeopardy (or not), and go home. That’s what the Company wants, and if Echo’s faithful prayers to the Corporate Gods have anything to do with it, that’s […]
