HeyJaredStoryteller's Field Journal
My Substack is essentially my handbook—a storyteller's field journal. I capture in this handbook all my experiments with prose—the fantastical flights my imagination takes.
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The September That Went By — 02 (opens the original)
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Anatomy of a Breakup – Short Story (opens the original)
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This short story was written a few months ago to explore the craft of writing an unreliable narrator. In Anatomy of a Breakup, amid a messy, crackly breakup, the protagonist’s mind scrambles as he grapples with self-delusion, hurt, and unacknowledged guilt. <so
The August That Went By — 01 (opens the original)
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Take my yellow pill and forget all your worries – short story (opens the original)
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Hey you! Yes, you there. Yes, I am talking to you, reader. I have something important to tell you. But before that, let me introduce myself. I am your feed. I am all of your feeds on all of your devices. I may look and feel like different entities, but I am not. I am singular. And I am here to tell you: you are surrounded by enemies. Every single person whose ideas, thoughts, beliefs, religion, customs, skin color, language, and ideology differ from yours is your enemy. They are an existential t
These books changed the way I see the world – Reading List, January and February 2026 (opens the original)
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All you budding writers, me included, do you remember the first piece of advice you got for writing better? I do. Like a commandment from the Old Testament, or perhaps like the Akashvani in Itihasa, it was—Read! And so I read, and read! Sorry if that was anticlimactic. After working on my craft, like seriously working on my craft for the last three years, I now believe that that advice is the only one that will help one become a good writer and perhaps, more, much, much more.For me, reading bega
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