HeyJaredDavid Rachels
Co-author of REPARATIONS: A TIME-TRAVEL STORY, forthcoming in 2027 from Livingston Press. Editor of four volumes of Gil Brewer's short stories, published by Stark House Press. Free short stories here on my Substack!
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The New Shortest Story That I Have Ever Published! (opens the original)
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Two months ago, I shared my shortest published story, the embarrassing though perhaps amusing “Express Lane.”<img class="embedded-post-publication-logo" src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!jBfJ!,w_56,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fd09b595a-8397-4614-af38-07358d5
Will the Real James Hadley Chase Please Stand Up? (opens the original)
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In 2009, in celebration of their 60th anniversary, Harlequin reissued six of their early titles while openly admitting that they had made “small adjustments” to the novels so as not to offend 21st-century readers. I was curious about this, so I decided to do a small investigation into one of those books to see what they had changed.<a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!XQJ6!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-m
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