HeyJaredGaby’s Substack
Literary memoir and experimental narratives exploring memory, survival, and the right to rewrite one’s story.
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- Sep 22, 2026
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- Jul 14, 2026
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The Evidence (opens the original)
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My son came home from school today having been told off for punching another child in the head.<img alt="" class="sizing-normal" height="608" src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!flFq!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubs
The Places Shame Makes Us Live (opens the original)
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I have been thinking about shame, and the strange way it stops being something we feel and becomes somewhere we live. A skin. A room. A postcode. We carry it into new houses, new jobs, new relationships, even into the lives we build long after the thing that gave it to us has ended. Perhaps the hardest part of leaving shame is realising that the door has been unlocked for years.<a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!htL0!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_
The Trouble With Getting What You Asked For (opens the original)
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I got what I asked for.<img alt="" class="sizing-normal" height="3060" src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!wmco!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F0ff3b9d3-96e4-4df
Instructions For Leaving the Grave of Life (opens the original)
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I’ve spent much of my life believing that loving people meant understanding them.<img alt="" class="sizing-normal" height="608" src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!-LiQ!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post
The Rooms We Build (opens the original)
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It’s been a while.Not because I haven’t had anything to say, but because life has asked me to live more than it has asked me to write.<img alt="" class="sizing-normal" height="608" src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!1O-B!,w_1456,c_limit,f
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