HeyJaredSean Elder
I'm a writer and editor based in California and Connecticut. I've been trying to write short stories since I was a teenager, and learned more Saunders' A Swim in the Pond in the Rain than I ever learned in school (rock lyric, sorry)
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The Blame Game (opens the original)
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We had some friends over for dinner last week when one of them regaled us with tales of the problems she was having with her grown children. I have to be vague enough to preserve her anonymity, but the point of this is not the unique quality of her story but the similarities it has to other tales I’ve heard from other parents of grown children. Hers were kids of privilege—had a couple of homes, went to the best schools, traveled a lot on their parents’ dime etc. But now, in their late twenties,
Ask Not (opens the original)
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I was heartened to see demonstrators in Washington, DC amassing to protect the Kennedy Center from possible destruction this weekend. As Mother Jones’ Clara Jefferys pointed out, this was an issue that seems to have united people in their opposition to Trump in ways others haven’t. Sure, there were demonstrations across the country after ICE agents murdered Renee Good and Alex Pretti in Minneapolis earlier this year, proving that even conservatives believe in
Country Pride (opens the original)
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We were driving through the Province countryside a few weeks ago when I heard Charley Crockett coming out of our car speaker. No, they weren’t playing him on French radio. I was synched to my Apple Tunes and based on someone I had recently listened to (Tyler Childers? Billy Strings?) the algorithm was feeding me what it figured I’d like. The song is called “America,” and if you don’t know it, give it a listen. Crockett has one of those distinctive country voices, grave but also warm, that certai
Truth Be Known (opens the original)
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Buried beneath the rubble of 9.11 stories that appeared in the run-up to the 25th anniversary of the disaster was a piece in the New York Times about the “completist community” of people searching for more images from that day. Jonathan Walczac wasn’t alive when the towers fell but has dedicated a lot of time, as well as a podcast, to uncovering lost footage and photos from that day. Walczac read that the FBI had found a disposable camera from a ma
California Living (opens the original)
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We came back to California for my niece’s wedding and ended up making a nut run from our home in Sausalito to Boonville, a few hours north. Boonville (pop. 1018) is a waystation for people traveling to picturesque Mendocino, with a unique Northern California history. The former logging town boasted its own dialect (“Boontling”) in the late 1800s, and later became home to the Moonies, as well as serial killer Leonard Lake, but those crazies are long gone. Now the town and the surrounding Anderson
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