Jessica Neutz

Writer.Marketer.Storyteller.

Over 20 years reading what the body reveals. Now I put it into words: dark fiction, poetry, and essays that refuse to resolve.

The demand that writing be comfortable is a demand that it be useless.— Jessica Neutz

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01

The Hollow Women

She had been wearing her own face wrong for years. Nobody noticed until the mirror did.

If you read one piece first, make it this one. Body horror as psychological portrait.

~12 minRead
02

Taxonomy of Small Griefs

A catalog of losses no one eulogizes. The sock without a match. The word you almost said.

The shortest path to understanding what this archive is for.

~4 minRead
03

Notes on Becoming Something Else

What the body knows that the mind refuses to acknowledge.

The essay that explains the rest. Start here if you want context.

~8 minRead
04

SLIT LAMP

A Lyric Essay — where the clinical and the lyric collapse into each other.

The most formally ambitious piece in the archive. Not for the faint of heart.

~14 minRead

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