Author: Jackie Pick

Jackie Pick is a former teacher and current writer living in the Chicago area. She is a contributing author to multiple anthologies, including Multiples Illuminated, So Glad They Told Me: Women Get Real about Motherhood, Here in the Middle, as well as the and the literary magazines The Sun and Selfish. She received Honorable Mention from the Mark Twain House and Museum for her entry in the Royal Nonesuch Humor Writing Competition. Jackie is a contributing writer at Humor Outcasts, and her essays have been featured on various online sites including McSweeney's, Belladonna Comedy, Mamalode, The HerStories Project, and Scary Mommy. A graduate of the University of Chicago and Northwestern University, Jackie is co-creator and co-writer of the award-winning short film Fixed Up, and a proud member of the 2017 Chicago cast of Listen To Your Mother.

Sunday Shorts

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I am increasingly appalled at the number of jokes already being made about Whitney Houston, who died not 24 hours ago.

I get the need for gallows humor, but that usually applies to people we’ve known.

I humbly request that everyone wait until my funeral to make jokes about me and my death. Also, I wouldn’t be adverse to a funny tombstone.

For now, I take a moment and think about how many super-talents also deal with super demons.