Rotten Fruit, Ripe Truths
A soft launch into the strange, sacred mess of surviving and storytelling.
Welcome to Rotten Fruit Press.
The creative corner of Jennifer Campo’s writing world—also known here on Substack as @jennifercampo.
I’m a long-time writer, beginner sharer—finally stepping out of the writing closet after surviving the fuckery of an atrocious lawsuit. You can read about that here.
Here, I publish under my name (👋 hi, I’m Jennifer), and Rotten Fruit Press is the thematic umbrella for all my creative fermentation. It’s where poetry, pop-culture fanfic, and a deep Sicilian-lore obsession bubble up into something strange, soft, and saucy. (Sorry, I had to.)
🖋 My Current Project: Strange Woman
Part memoir, part user manual, part ancestral haunting—Strange Woman documents my journey after surviving sexual assault by a doctor (who is, by the way, still practicing). It’s the guidebook I needed after pressing charges, and a love letter to survivors. Spoiler: it’s not you, babe.
Even if it seems like Sicilian folklore and pop culture fanfic have nothing in common, they all thread into Strange Woman. I think in systems and see the world as a stage. I’m unraveling the stories we’ve inherited—often stranger than fiction—and exploring the programming that shapes us. This work is about peeling back those layers: art about art. Threading the lies out of our souls.
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Let’s make some toilet wine together. 🍇
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⚖️ Legal Disclaimer
The civil lawsuit in Fort Collins, Colorado, against Dr. Timothy Allen has concluded. I am not bound by any non-disclosure agreements. I am legally permitted to state the following facts:
“Dr. Timothy Allen sexually assaulted me,”
and
“The 59-page police report includes statements from five other women with similar accounts.”
Yes, you can have a copy.
All other statements on this platform reflect my personal experiences, creative interpretation, and emotional processing. These may include fictionalized or symbolic elements and should not be interpreted as factual beyond the public legal record. Any resemblance to real persons, living or dead, is purely coincidental.
This is not journalism or testimony—it’s a reclamation. If that sounds like your kind of weird, hit subscribe and stay strange with me. 🍇