HeyJaredJames Mondesir
Soul-Glass is where I publish my work. Personal essays, short fiction, meditations on art and music and film — writing that belongs here and nowhere else. Some of it was written for magazines that passed. Some of it was written only for this space. All of
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The Distance Between Conviction and Verdict (opens the original)
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There is something deceptive about photographs. They freeze a moment so completely that we begin to mistake stillness for certainty. Once enough years have passed, the image seems to contain its own meaning, as though the future had always been visible inside the frame. We forget that the people in the photograph possessed none of that certainty and did not know what the moment would cost, or whether it would become a triumph, a tragedy, or a footnote. All they had was the present.Few images ill
The Room Where Everything Is Said (opens the original)
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In 1978, a former physics teacher published a novel under a pseudonym. The Turner Diaries imagined a race war. Seventeen years later, Timothy McVeigh replicated the bomb plot described in Chapter VI in the Oklahoma City bombing, and in the process blasted nineteen pre-school children into pieces and partial remains, including 149 adults. What had been written as fiction had become a blueprint.I had been thinking about writing a novel about censorship, freedom of expression and academic freedom,
No One Asked Why (opens the original)
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When did disagreement become a test of moral belonging?There was a moment at a dinner party several years ago that has stayed with me longer than the conversation itself.<img alt="" class="sizing-normal" height="4032" src="https://s
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