Jessica Staricka

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

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

My short story "Trick of the Light" was published online in New Ohio Review! 🖤🦇 newohioreview.org/2025/11/17/tri…

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???

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

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

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! lascauxreview.com/kid-disappeare…

(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.)

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!

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

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

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! 🦌 14hills.net/publications-f…

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

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

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

Me: "I feel like I'm in the Twilight Zone" Coworker: "You're in the toilet zone?"

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

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

I compiled my 2024 summary of art and got mad that I barely made any art last year so I immediately sat down and made this