HeyJaredThe FLARE
An emotional signal shot into space, waiting to be discovered. I hope you see it, I hope it finds you. Short fiction | Poetry | Personal essays
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The Only Advice I Give New Parents (opens the original)
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Welcome to my new subscribers! I’m happy to have you here. This essay was originally published on Medium in 2021 and was cited in last week’s post. I wanted to give this a home here. Holy crap, you’re pregnant. When they say it only takes one time, you are living proof. Whoever thought a couple chocolate-covered strawberries could mark the beginning of a new life phase? It’s unbelievable, scary, perhaps exciting, and sometimes dreadful, but there you are, with a lima bean wr
Hard to Say Goodbye (opens the original)
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Pressure built behind my eyes as tears threatened to fall, but I set my mouth into a hard line and nodded vigorously. He nodded with me and his eyes told me he understood this was a difficult choice. There were parts I wanted to keep and I was grateful he knew there didn’t need to be a legitimate reason. I could keep what I wanted simply because I wanted it.I rubbed my hand over my swollen belly. Recently I’d been having the familiar tug of round ligament pain. As my bowels roiled with gas, insi
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