HeyJaredBishop Washington
personal essays about relationships, life, and everything in between.
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father time (opens the original)
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my grandfather died and i went to a rave.i hate that sentence.not because it is untrue. because it is true in a way that makes me want to explain myself before you get the wrong idea.but explaining is usually where writing starts lying.so there it is.my grandfather died and i went to a rave.my mom texted the family group chat last friday. grandpa phil was gone.i understood it immediately. not emotionally. not in the body. but factually. administratively. in the way your phone understands somethi
proof of life (opens the original)
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disclaimer: there are names in this one. that’s new for me. i hope you read every word.mckenzie stadium. vancouver, washington. spring, and hot in the way the northwest never warns you about — sun showing up unannounced, everyone pale and squinting, the aluminum bleachers burning the backs of your legs through your shorts.my sister was thirteen. i was seventeen. my dad had talked her into signing up for middle school track a few months earlier, the way dads do, where it isn’t really a question.
nightly thought: i swear i can change him!! (opens the original)
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“i swear i can change him” is the most optimistic sentence in the english language. it’s also the most exhausting.and it’s never just about a him.you’re going to say it about a boyfriend. you’re going to say it about a girlfriend. you’re going to say it about your best friend from high school who’s still doing the same thing he was doing at nineteen. you’re going to say it about your mother. you’re going to say it about your father, over and over, until one day you stop, and the stopping will hu
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