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Jessie Lovett

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Best Small Fictions 22 @PitheadChapel @LAReview @NCTE English Journal | ex Perkins waitress | #firstgen PhD | teaching comp 1 & 2 at the community college jessielovett.net

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Roxane Gay @roxanegay.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
As the world burns, let's get one thing straight. A video podcast is just a TV show.
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Jessie Lovett @jesslovett.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
In the before times, I felt annoyed when my college students got whispery with one another in class; now my brain thinks awwwww you found a bestie, so happy for u
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Jessie Lovett @jesslovett.bsky.social · 07/09/2025
Stunning fiction piece from the mind of @ashleyespinoza.bsky.social
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Jessie Lovett @jesslovett.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
My poem in the latest NCTE English Journal. Love to all theater the kids
Death Scene at the High School
One day your child dies
on stage. The boy cast as her lover cries
no no no no no
She says I love you, falls limp.
Feels so real the audience gasps. Someone says
even the principal choked up
Afterwards, the kids pile giddy arms over legs into cars under parking lot lights, pancake makeup-faced toward the good McDonald's by the interstate.
Hair sprayed stiff, black eyeliner thick like earthen holes.
No child killed for real
You once played Desdemona, your friend as Othello whispering jokes each time he smothered you
with the pillow. Death then didn't seize your ribs like he does tonight
as you go home in your stupid
car
-JESSIE LOVETT
© 2025 BY JESSIE LOVETT
JESSIE LOVETT teaches reading, writing, and literature at North Platte Community College in western Nebraska. She holds a PhD in literacy education from the University of Wyoming. She is the author of the viral poem "Small Town English Teacher," which first appeared in English Journal in 2020, as well as other poetry and short fiction. You can find her at jessie.lovett.allen@gmail.com or@jesslovett.bsky.social.
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MrBullBull @mrbullbull.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
"Andrew didn’t know how to have real conversations. He only said the same things over & over: the doughnut thing, lines from retro movies, choruses from heavy metal songs. It was like he was afflicted by lyrics & puns & corporate taglines." - @maboswell.bsky.social mrbullbull.com/newbull/fict...
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Taco Bell Quarterly @tacobellquarterly.org · 28/01/2025
The secret to getting over writer jealousy is realizing you're not in a competition with your peers. You're in a trauma bond! Wheeee!
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X-R-A-Y @xraylitmag.bsky.social · 11/01/2025
today we have a micro by M.A. Boswell !! in roughly 100 words, Boswell describes a recently broken up couple that consoles themselves with Taylor Swift songs & angry pancake making read it ! xraylitmag.com/not-handled-...
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NOT HANDLED WITH CARE by M.A. Boswell
After Olivia tore out of the parking lot, Hyundai stuffed with all the nice shit from their place, Josh mixed batter and slammed it into a bruised Teflon pan. He’d survived on easy food before, when o...
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Jessie Lovett @jesslovett.bsky.social · 16/12/2024
Short story idea: violent dystopian matriarchy where your clan=your child’s HS sport/activity Setting: isolated rural west town, pop 24k
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Jessie Lovett @jesslovett.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
Watched my Spotify Wrapped story and am shook at what a big sappy sack of romantic shit I was all year
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brittany @britomatic.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
I’m starting to read today for my @publishedbyjake.bsky.social guest call, you’ve got a couple more days to get me your best fuck around and find out break up hookup callback fall down texts 🖤🖤 oleada.io/publication/...
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Jessie Lovett @jesslovett.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
Hiya Bluesky, I’m a poet, fiction writer, English teacher. If I seem familiar it’s probably from this poem
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Jessie Lovett @jesslovett.bsky.social · 12/10/2023
when you accidentally use the salutation Hell Class, instead of Hello Class, in your Canvas course announcement
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Jessie Lovett @jesslovett.bsky.social · 08/10/2023
I don’t affirm the divinity of football nor do I observe games, but my cultural tradition is Buffalo Bills, my ancestors haunt the ruins of Bethlehem Steel and the post office facilities of the southtowns
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Jessie Lovett @jesslovett.bsky.social · 02/10/2023
Sub window for my new lit mag will be announced via geocache, gps coordinates will appear after you watch a rickroll from a link hidden in my website’s privacy policy
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Jessie Lovett @jesslovett.bsky.social · 01/10/2023
Do it, what’s the worst that could happen
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Jessie Lovett @jesslovett.bsky.social · 01/10/2023
I played the bassoon
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Jessie Lovett @jesslovett.bsky.social · 29/09/2023
Latest story! It has a butter lamb losangelesreview.org/the-vandal-b...
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The Vandal by Jessie Lovett Allen - The Los Angeles Review
The four-foot plastic Santa lay sideways in the gutter, and Jesus had been ejected from the manger into the snow. The camel, presumably the property of the wise men nearby, rested on a dense row of he...
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