Jake Varn

@jakevarn.bsky.social

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Working on internet policy at Pew. Elsewhere writing fiction: https://jakevarn.wordpress.com/

Two frame screenshot of a meeting of the mayors office staff, first, the assistant sitting: "So, I guess you don't want me to take him to the old hospital?" Second, Matthew Rhys, playing the Mayor, standing: "No, I don't Dale. And I think you knew that."
Spread of books, Tacoma, Aliens Attack, How to Write a Novel, Until it Feels Right, Out There In the Dark, If I Can Be Honest, and Frontier
Mr. Burns from the Simpsons writing.
TikTok ban notification but for Microsoft Teams
Black and white dog in the snow.
Excerpt of text from the short story Saturday Night in Trader Joe's, with the image of the neon sign for Trader Joe's on top and the DC skyline on bottom. Text reads: "And one layer after that, at the molten core, he knew that if he started in on it, he would tell them everything. How his mom didn’t come to the funeral, and how a generic pastor he had never seen in his life read from a stock script about grief and God’s plan, and how his grandmother had cried in halting gasps, inhaling the whole world between each sob. It would ruin being in DC for the summer. No, this was the perfect opportunity to disassociate from it. Work was here and family was there, and as long as he kept his mouth shut and didn’t post anything online about it, no one here ever had to know."
Cover image of the Fall 2024 issue of the Rathalla Review from Rosemont College - pictured: forest floor of brown leaves covering a single green leaf.
Map of an undersea canyon
Status update from Submittable with "Accepted" next to the story titled "Saturday Night in Trader Joe's"
Down Detector's graph showing a spike of reported outages in the last 24 hours.