HeyJaredBetween Words
A creative space for original fiction and honest reflections on identity, parenting, and the writing life.
- Indexed issues, last 90 days
- 6
- Latest publication
- Sep 28, 2026
- Audience
- Checking…
- Earliest in this view
- Jul 22, 2026
Latest issues
Sparkling Rage (opens the original)
Read excerpt
News Cycles like the ones we seem to be trapped in for all eternity, amen, are tough for me. Are tough for many of us, I know. But I can only speak to my experiences.As a child who grew up with pervasive fear and abuse from all sides, it is difficult to be an adult in a world where the same power dynamic plays out time and time again, world without end, amen. It’s painful to see vulnerability exploited; and then for that exploitation to be celebrated.It’s painful to watch men still, always, fore
Prevention 2026. Still Here. (opens the original)
Read excerpt
* Content warning for discussion of suicidal ideation and attempts, but also an assurance that this is NOT NOW and I am doing well. *If you follow any of the same content I do, you already know that September is Suicide Prevention Month.I’ve written about my experience, at 9, 10. Waiting for the dissolved chalk to take effect (spoiler alert: no).I thought about not posting this month. I’m tired of that story. I’m tired of thinking of 10 year old me.But that’s just a snapshot. Because of course i
Not As Much Navel Gazing (opens the original)
Read excerpt
I thought it might be nice to take a break from all the illness and Facing Of One’s Mortality and share some writerly related updates! A few months ago I got to guest speak at a private school summer camp thing for middle schoolers called Fantasy and Fiction and it was the most fun EVER. The kiddos were ready to start drafting: some eager to go and others staring in blank horror at the screen. We talked how and when to use magic, how to ask questions to move yourself out of paralysis, how to not
On Trying to Keep My Footing (opens the original)
Read excerpt
It’s all of it at once: Xander’s mono, Luna’s abrupt departure from school and the quiet aftermath of her burnout, the endless, clinical warfare of school district legal battles. The financial strain that sits in the back of my throat. The physical toll of persistent illness, where medical trauma meets the actual, throbbing reality of a body in pain. And then the news breaks about Wheaton College, and suddenly old, familiar abuse triggers are right there, reminding me that the people who were su
Catching up (opens the original)
Read excerpt
I know. I said I’d be back more regularly, and then I wasn’t.I’m trying.I was really sick. Like, really, really sick. I’m still processing it, in a way. My therapist says I’m having an acute stress reaction to events that also triggered some of my underlying PTSD reactions, too. So that’s fun. Trauma on trauma.It’s hard to explain what it was like, but I want to try.I had leg pain for a while. In my hips, where trauma is stored, of course.From onset to ER, I lost the ability to walk in weeks. E
Publishing over time
Last 90 days. Choose a month to open its work.
Recurring subjects
Named in the text we hold. One piece can cover several.
Audience
No verified audience measurement yet.
About this data
Counts cover the work we have indexed. Tone needs enough text and a confident classification. Excerpts and episode notes are not full articles or transcripts.
Identity or attribution wrong? Suggest a correction.