HeyJaredIn the Inversion Field
Suspended just high enough to let the earth do the moving for me. Fiction, Art, Culture, Life & Critters.
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What I Left Out (opens the original)
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I asked Substackers at large to guess what this texture is. People said surface of the sun, sponges, yeast, mycelium, feces, fruit, moldy bread, dandelion, kiwi skin, and coral. Now I shall reveal the riddle’s answer.<source type="image/webp
The Whole Problem (opens the original)
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Written for the Fiction is Culture initiative Building Bridges for Broad Ripple.I don’t know what it is about them that does it to me. I don’t even know how to describe it. That’s why I’m writing you, like, maybe saying it to you’ll give it some sense, you know?I picture you doing your Jordan thing, fir
Winning is for Losers (opens the original)
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It sure has been an era of close wins.This has been my year of second-place crowns. And tomorrow, as I hit two years on Substack, I find myself taking inventory: what really matters in all this submitting and scribbling and scrambling?Getting read counts. In fact, it means everything.I’ve been thinking a lot, thank you, Oliver Sacks1, about how a piece of fiction is like sheet music and how the reader is the one who plays the actual music in their head. Without a reader
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