Jessica Staricka

Writer, artist, buffoon.

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I can't believe my boyfriend is getting into Pink Floyd at the same time as I'm getting into polka

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I've been in Winter Olympics mode all month. Now that they're done it's like I'm climbing out of a cave, blinking at the light, realizing I need to re-learn how to consume non-Olympic media

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Whenever I bring a super basic homemade sandwich loaf home to my parents and they ask "ooh what kind of bread is this"

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My short story "Trick of the Light" was published online in New Ohio Review! 🖤🦇 https://t.co/f5WxRGl1R8

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I wrote 11,000 words in the past 36 hours and unexpectedly finished the novel I've been working on since October. Totally crap draft. I really went in with an incomplete vision. But heyyyy that's what revision is for, right? Right???

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Extremely unhappy to report that I broke my Fever Free streak 🥲 I haven't had a fever since 2012, until today 🥲

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Sorry I can't come in to work today, I'm in the throes of a severe geomagnetic storm

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My short story, "Kid Disappeared," was published by The Lascaux Review after being selected as a finalist for their 2025 Lascaux Prize in Flash Fiction! Give it a read! https://t.co/SaivAYYJXA

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(I'll share links to both once they're published. In the meantime, here's me and my water bottle of iced boxed wine enjoying some writing time on the rooftop.)

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I got great writing news two days in a row! New Ohio Review accepted my short story "Trick of the Light" and will be publishing it in December. The next day, I learned that my flash fiction piece "Kid Disappeared" was a finalist for the Lascaux Prize in Flash Fiction! Cheers!

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I'm teaching Creative Writing again this quarter at Academy College! First day of class today, yeehaw! 🤠

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It's a law of nature that if you get in a pickup truck, Walter is also in the pickup truck

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My short story "Opener Weekend" was published in issue #30 of Fourteen Hills last summer (and I'm just getting around to sharing it now, whoops!) I'm so happy my deer-hunting-murder-plot story found a home in such an amazing journal! 🦌

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I just heard Johnny Cash say that when Jimmie Rodgers was dying, many "friends, hobos, and entertainers" gathered to be with him. This is how I will be addressing crowds from now on

[Jessica Staricka @jstaricka]

Every day I walk into work and make the active choice to be the most annoying person I can be

[Jessica Staricka @jstaricka]

Yes I would like a box for my three cold buffalo wings. One and a half chickens died to give me these wings

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Me: "I feel like I'm in the Twilight Zone"

Coworker: "You're in the toilet zone?"

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Watching Deadliest Catch. Why are these gritty crab fishermen better at expressing their emotions than I am

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I just finished a huge revision of a novel I wrote in 2017 and have revised several times since 2022. The draft is rough as heck but I feel great about it anyway. The story has an actual shape now! There are movements and motivations! No more pulling my punches, I tell ya what