HeyJaredThe Speculative
Dark speculative "what-ifs" and late-night ramblings. Also books. Lots of books.
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If neither are real, then who was I? (opens the original)
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There’s a boy I talk about, when others share stories of childhoods, or of teenage escapades. Sometimes, the boy is six, nerdy and bullied for being weird. Sometimes he’s twelve and is terrified of telling his mother he likes boys. Maybe he lost all his friends in high school after a rumor spread, like wildfire, about who he was dating. He’s a teen and running from cops and drinking and giving himself tattoos—poorly—or he’s in college surrounded by girls because they feel safer around the mostly
Lush, Lavish, and Lethal (opens the original)
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I first encountered Kit Mayquist’s work through his partner, knowing that if S. T. Gibson was a fan, so too, would I be. Tripping Arcadia is a modern gothic following med-school drop-out Lena Gereghty as she enters the twisted, unobtainable world of the modern ultra-rich. Desperate to help pay her family’s mounting bills, she takes a position as an assistant to a private doctor for the Verdeau’s, a family of pharmaceutical moguls. With each step into the atmospheric manor house, Lena learns just
Dog days and heliacal rising. (opens the original)
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Hello friend,I’ve been quiet lately, with my last update over two months ago. There’s something strange about the last, desperate gasps of summer, long days slowly waning, heat exhaustion and sunburns and thirst turning us all to mad dogs. The day job is full of rock dust and rust and a haze of flies. A few weeks ago it reached a fever pitch and, likewise, broke. Twelve-hour days slowly taper to the regular eight. Now, dawn doesn’t come until I’m halfway to work. I celebrated a birthday as well,
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