HeyJaredNick’s Cool Substack for Attractive People
A place to find occasional updates on my writing, but mostly for me to deliberately waste your time with silly nonsense
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Livestock, Zero Gravity, and a Very Bad Day for Pirates (opens the original)
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Hey gang! Today I’m talkin’ bout “Incident on the Ag Dome Express,” my space-western piece from Space Cowboys 5: Cattle Drive, from Raconteur Press.<img alt="" class="sizing-normal" height="1499" src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!lGGa!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com
Curating an Anthology I Also Wrote For (opens the original)
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Afternoon, gang!A quickie behind-the-scenes note on “With Friends Like These.” <img alt="" class="sizing-normal" height="980" src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!W2SL!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/h
A Ceasefire, a Monster, and No Good Options (opens the original)
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Hey gang! New short fiction spotlight: “With Friends Like These,” my military Science Fiction piece from the 2025 anthology Mercs and Mayhem, from Raconteur Press. I also had the pleasure of curating this volume, and I love how it all came together.The premise of my story, you ask? A vicious stalemated battle on a distant planet, merely one front in a galaxy-spanning conflict. A ceasefire holds between American and Chinese forces, but something else has been killing their soldiers the whole time
A Different Kind of Homecoming (opens the original)
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Camps, Columns, and Chow Lines (opens the original)
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