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  • The author's feet on a concrete pavement in front of a fence with daisies.
    Personal

    Life Update: The Bitch is Back

    / December 10, 2024

    …the bitch being my cyst. Or me, I guess, if you count whiny little bitches. If you’ve been following the saga of my Bartholin cyst, whelp—it came back a few months ago. I…

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  • Purple and pink flowers on vines.
    essays,  Personal

    Songs Are Spells, or, You Make Me Want You

    / September 26, 2023

    The other night, I fell into a deep, velvety-dark hole of nostalgia. It began with a few Christina Aguilera music videos (the Dirrty years), which led me to Avril Lavigne (and her most…

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  • Red flowers behind fence.
    Personal,  Writing

    Love in the End Times: Two Poems

    / August 11, 2023

    You may not know this, but sometimes I also write poetry; I even have a poetry book you can buy if you’re interested. Here are two poems about love and the end times,…

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    I Wrote This Stoned at 2PM on a Tuesday

    / July 20, 2023

    I haven’t slept well in 2.5 years. About six months after we moved into our last apartment, we got new neighbors above us. Neighbors who never slept, nor removed their boots, in a…

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  • Mood board for horror/romance novel.
    Writing

    A Horrormance Novel Mood Board

    / February 2, 2023

    I haven’t posted here in a bit, mostly because I’ve been working on a horror/romance novel for a couple of months now, and it’s the most fun I’ve had writing anything in years…

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Hello! I'm Claire, a writer and poet living in Los Angeles, and this is L.A. Jayne - a girly repository for all of my thoughts. I write about sex and queerness in life, art, and culture, and also about navigating women's health (with chronic pain) in the hellscape that is the U.S. health care system. Come for the rants, stay for the heartfelt essays and practical advice. I also have killer taste in movies.

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