HeyJaredA Character Picks Up A Gun
Fast, gripping stories meant for one sitting. Each centers on the moment someone picks up a gun and how one decision reshapes everything that follows. Subscribe to receive new stories as they’re published.
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- Aug 18, 2026
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One-Way Ticket (opens the original)
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Iris walked into Pleasant Travels Agency to book a one-way trip to anywhere. She needed to leave Denver, and she never planned to come back.The travel agency was in a strip mall. On one side of the agency there was a nail salon, and on the other was a Chinese restaurant. The scent of nail acetone and fried rice commingled in the travel shop. A plump woman in her 60s sat at the front desk. Her bad dye job did nothing to cover the grays, not only at the roots, but the gray strands throughout her b
Incognito (A .38 Special) (opens the original)
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Zahraa’s hand shook, so much so that her coffee spilled over the side of her cup, splashed onto the table, dripped onto the floor. The hot liquid burned her fingers, but it was more like an afterthought, a faint sensation, than scalding pain.She was in her favorite café, Spill The Beans. It was a quaint shop that had been in the neighborhood for over 50 years. She came in here every day to work on her dissertation. She always ordered a cinnamon-butter chocolate croissant and a coffee, black. She
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