R. Jean Bell

Reader, Author, Poet, Editor, Photographer

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Color Photography: Spiders and Insects
Photography

Color Photography: Spiders and Insects

Posted on July 10, 2018July 25, 2018 by R. Jean Bell
The Offer–Fifty Word Microfiction
Fiction

The Offer–Fifty Word Microfiction

Posted on July 8, 2018July 10, 2018 by R. Jean Bell

The Offer Sign this contract and they could go home–no more shitty apartments. Play the dutiful wife in public. The kids get the benefits of…

Practice Makes Perfect, Right?
Writing

Practice Makes Perfect, Right?

Posted on June 30, 2018July 13, 2018 by R. Jean Bell

Everyone who speaks much English knows the expression practice makes perfect. However, I find the expression “perfect practice makes perfect,” generally attributed to Vince Lombardi,…

Speedy: An Equine Limerick
Poetry

Speedy: An Equine Limerick

Posted on May 12, 2018July 12, 2018 by R. Jean Bell

Hey Speedy. Just quit it you dolt! We all understand you’re a colt. We’ll snip off those balls Before nature calls. So treasure your last…

Volcano: A Micropoem
Poetry

Volcano: A Micropoem

Posted on May 10, 2018July 10, 2018 by R. Jean Bell

pressure building impossible to contain hot magma probes to find a way out won’t take much more before it explodes it’s just not a good…

The Key to Writing Tight Flash Fiction
Writing

The Key to Writing Tight Flash Fiction

Posted on March 8, 2018September 27, 2018 by R. Jean Bell

After struggling some with a flash exercise, I did a lot of thinking, reading, and analyzing about what was necessary to write good flash fiction. The…

On Freewriting
Writing

On Freewriting

Posted on January 10, 2018July 11, 2018 by R. Jean Bell

Freewriting is a writing exercise intended for people like me–people whose internal editor is so critical that they often struggle to get the words on…

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About Me

R. Jean Bell grew up in the United States but has spent the last twenty years in Denmark. A voracious reader since age three, she averages a book a day. She spends her time writing fiction and poetry, doing hobby photography, and being with her husband, horses, and dogs.

Her work appears in Cast of Wonders, ParABnormal Magazine, and more. She additionally took second place in the 2019 BSFS poetry competiton.

She recently joined the first reader team at Apex Magazine.

The bex bee image and the bex-with-book image used with book reviews were both created by the extremely talented Matytan.

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