Diana Jo Filip

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Feb, 2024

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“Jack-o-Junking ” by Diana Jo Filip

Submitted to Contest #243

“I always had an unusual relationship with drawers. Especially the top ones, called offensively (and even defensively), junk-drawers. They are so far from being junky as is Japan from a second Pearl Harbor. But, I’ll leave the knick-knacks drawer peroration for another time. Good afternoon!”He opened his notebook, ready to write the date and the name of the patient, when her out-of-the-blue opening stopped him in the middle of the word “August”.“You know, I find drawers very loud, jam-packed, ideologically conflicting and overloaded with baf...

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“Covenant ” by Diana Jo Filip

Submitted to Contest #238

It must have been around noon, when she realized how badly the snowstorm hit the city and fed all local media channels with war-like traffic reports: everything was covered in virtuous white. White shit falling happily down from a crazy-land, owned by some cryogenic gods. Frozen state for heartless times. Christmas was still a month away. Gift list forgotten in a Barbie-colored app. Bills lined up and ignored for weeks in her inbox. Whiskey bottle standing tall and courageous like a Viking warrior blinking twice and meaning yes. “Yes, take m...

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Author bio

Diana Jo is a True-Northerner with some university degrees, articles and reviews (mostly on scattered papers), a Guinea Pig and a multitude of pairs of skis. She reads English, French and German. She finished her studies with a French PhD thesis, ended up teaching Ancient World Literature to students who believe TikTok was an Inca god and Nietzche was Plato's best buddy. Throughout her career she went by some other names (none of them worth-mentioning), but Diana Jo is the writing identity she made up one night after a calamity-fight with her non-Guinea pig partner.  Fiction saved her once again from the clutches of an alienating reality.  ​ ​ ​