Pariah
Read Jamy Bond’s latest story, published in BULL Magazine.
Jamy Bond is a fiction and nonfiction writer.
Her stories and essays appear in a variety of publications, including The Rumpus, The Sun Magazine, Barren Magazine, Ghost Parachute, JMWW, Pithead Chapel, Wigleaf, and elsewhere. Her story “Tattoos” was recently selected for Best Microfiction 2023. Her story “Combat Zone” appeared on the Wigleaf Top 50 longlist 2022. Her essay “Shipwrecked” was selected for the Best of JMWW anthology. Her work has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize, Best of the Net, Best Microfiction, Best American Short Stories and Best American Essays. She earned an MFA from George Mason University where she co-founded So To Speak: A Feminist Journal of Language and Art.
She was awarded a Fulbright Scholar grant and spent three years researching and writing in Mozambique. She served as a Peace Corps volunteer in Bulgaria, which launched a decade of working in international development and disaster relief.
Jamy’s work and writing have sent her across five continents and through 25 countries, including two war zones. Today, she lives with her family on the banks of Aquia Creek just outside of Washington, DC. Contact Jamy at jamy@jamybond.com.
“Jamy explores the darker side of the human experience with equal parts grace and gravity.”
– Writer Elizabeth Edwards
Stories and Creative Nonfiction
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Pariah
BULL October 2024
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Falling Man
Ghost Parachute 8th Anniversary Issue October 2024 *Nominated for Best Microfiction 2025
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Swingers Circa 1972
Gooseberry Pie September 2024 *Nominated for Best Microfiction 2025
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Transplant
Your Impossible Voice
August 2024
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Phenomenology 101
Gooseberry Pie March 2024
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Denver
Bending Genres December 2023
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Note to Self
Microfiction Monday Magazine September 2023
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Nighttime Quarry Jump
The Dribble Drabble Review September 2023
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In the Company of Sadie Star
Already Gone: 40 Writers on Running Away Alan Squire Publishing November 2023
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The Zipper
Ghost Parachute August 2023
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Hunger Games
Ghost Parachute January 2023
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Tattoos
CHEAP POP September 2022 *Winner Best Microfiction 2023
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I Wish I Could Tell My Dead Husband
100 Word Story September 2022 *Nominated for Best Microfiction 2023
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The Story Inside Your Head
Ghost Parachute August 2022
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Orphans
Reckon Review
May 2022 *Nominated for Best American Short Stories 2023 and Best Microfiction 2023 -
The Midway
Flash Frog Magazine
May 2022
*Nominated for Best of the Net 2023 -
Learning to Fly
Furious Gravity Anthology
April 2022
*Nominated for a Pushcart Prize -
Prayer for the Living
Creative Nonfiction Pithead Chapel - February 2022
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What Matters
Creative Nonfiction
Bending Genres - December 2021 -
What My Mother Talks About
Ghost Parachute December 1, 2021
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Shipwrecked
Creative Nonfiction
JMWW – September 2021
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Morphine
The Forge Literary
August 9, 2021 -
Therapy
Mac(ro)mic
June 30, 2021 -
Combat Zone
Tiny Molecules
Issue Nine, June 2021 *Wigleaf Top 50 Longlist 2022 -
Lesson in Survival
Janus Literary
May 2021 *Nominated for Best of the Net 2022 -
Kaysera Stops Pretty Places
Flash Frog Magazine
April 29, 2021
*Nominated for Best American Short Stories 2022 -
Gifts
Barren Magazine, Issue 18, Idle Revelries
*Editor’s Pick April 2021 -
We Thought You Might Like to Know
X-R-A-Y
February 22, 2021 -
American Girl Doll
Emerge Literary Magazine
September 2020 -
Come Here, I Want to Tell You Something
X-R-A-Y
July 24, 2020 -
The Baby
X-R-A-Y
October 28, 2019 -
(pro) ANA
Wigleaf
December 3, 2013