HeyJaredThe Querent
The person asking a question at the beginning of a Tarot card reading. Or, a newsletter project by Alexander Chee.
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Letter From Scotland (opens the original)
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September 4th, 2026Roslin, Scotland<img alt="" class="sizing-normal" height="1941" src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!WC5O!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%
The Story Thus Far (opens the original)
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I arrived at Bread Loaf on August 11th nearing the end of a difficult summer, feeling brittle emotionally and in need of processing what I had just been through in helping my mother pack up her life and move after a year spent helping her after her stroke. I will add that my mother is doing well at her new residence, and has seen her blood pressure go down to healthy levels, such that she doesn’t need her medications anymore. Dustin joked that maybe we should go there too, given. Deprescribed wa
On Helping My Mom Move (opens the original)
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I am home. I woke up and picked some blackberries off the hedges along my driveway for my cereal. This is the part of the summer I usually love most here in Vermont for sitting outside with friends up the hill, drinking a little gin around a fire in their yard and watching the fireflies as the moon rises. We call it the neighborhood gay bar (we are all gay). It rained too much for that Saturday night so instead we sat inside, we ate a kitchari our friends made for dinner and then celebrated the
Single Gay Uncle - A Short Story In Two Parts (opens the original)
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If you’re just catching up: this story first appeared in the now-defunct and much missed Tin House literary journal as “The Insincere House” in 2014 but it has never had a life online. I decided to revise it, change the title and publish it here. It is too long to fit in a single newsletter, thus it is here in two parts. Part 1 appeared last week. <a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" href=
Single Gay Uncle - A Short Story In Two Parts (opens the original)
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This story was first published in the now-defunct and much missed Tin House literary journal as “The Insincere House” in 2014. It has never had a life online, and so I decided to change that and the title. It is too long to publish in a single newsletter and luckily there is a natural break right in the middle. Part 2 appears next week.Jack’s first thought as he opens the door to the house his family has rented for the week of the Fourth of July is that it is insincere.He stands in the doorway t
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