HeyJaredNow That I'm Still Here
A raw, lyrical memoir of trauma, neurodivergence, grief, and the breath that came back anyway.
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The Horror Duel: Round One (opens the original)
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PrologueThere are probably easier ways to learn how to write horror.You could take a class. Read Shirley Jackson with a pencil in your hand. Study pacing, silence, atmosphere, and all the respectable little techniques writers have developed over centuries to make perfectly comfortable people suspicious of their own hallway.I chose public combat.This October, and I have made the deeply mature decision to settle our differences through horror fiction.Here’s how this works.Over the course of the du
The Myth of the Clean Recovery (opens the original)
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PROLOGUEShadow’s head comes up first, ears forward, that particular stillness she reserves for things that might matter. My whole chest goes tight before I even know why, and for one full second, standing at the counter in yesterday’s shirt, some old, practiced part of me is already rehearsing the phone call.It’s the mail truck.Tuesday, 6:47 in the morning, and nothing is wrong.I keep waiting for the sentence to correct itself.Nothing does. The coffee maker gurgles through its cycle like it has
Pull Up a Chair (opens the original)
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I’ve Been Thinking About What This Place Could BecomeThere is a strange thing about writing on the internet. You can have hundreds of people reading something deeply personal you wrote at 1:17 in the morning while sitting three feet from a German Shepherd, and still know almost nothing about what is happening in their lives. I write something, you read it, perhaps somebody leaves a comment, and then we all scatter back into our respective Tuesdays.Lately, that has started to feel incomplete.Beca
Start Here (opens the original)
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I woke up one morning with antifreeze in my stomach and a German Shepherd pressed against my side.I did not plan for either of those things.I shouldn’t be here.But I am.The 90 second version: this is a newsletter about the night that was supposed to end things, and the very long list of days that came after it anyway, narrated occasionally by a dog who has never once seemed impressed. Free gets you every essay. Paid gets you what I don’t publish anywhere else. Subscribe free if that’s enough. Ke
THE PLYMOUTH SENTINEL & CANINE GAZETTE (opens the original)
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PRICE: ONE BISCUITForeign subscriptions payable in cheese. Compliments accepted at market value.EXTRAORDINARY BULLETINS FROM ACROSS THE REALMMISS SHADOW RETURNS TO PUBLIC LIFEEditress Recovers From Illness; Finds Household Government in Administrative CollapseSEWER REMAINS DEFIANTPlymouth Deploys Iron, Steel, Engineers & Further Treasure Against Seventy Feet of Rebellious PlumbingTERRIBLE CALAMITY AT THE SUPPER DISHEditress Stricken; Medicine Accused; True Culprit Found in Expiration Date H
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