HeyJaredTrowbridge Dispatch Short Stories
Trowbridge Dispatch is a series of short stories that explore fictional Trowbridge Vermont and the characters of my novels. I promise humor, irony, thoughtful stories that celebrating the joyful mess we all are.
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The Challenge (opens the original)
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I have 9,000 folks on my mailing list. That’s you. The breaking news about Novel #3 “Captain Henry: 2 ½ Insurrections, 2 Wars, 1 ¼ Centuries, and a Story of Love” is that I am going to donate 10% of my proceeds to The Friends of the Massachusetts National Guard Museum (see below).Of these, about 3,100 view my short stories each month. Maybe some counting is done between open and delete. I prefer to think: some 3,000 folks read (or listen) my story at some point during the month. I work hard on t
The Valley (opens the original)
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Let me read this to you…https://trowbridgedispatch.iamaiken.com/p/the-valley-audioIn my effort to promote good writing, good writing habits, and ignore the intrusion of AI, sharing my collaboration with my editor SarahBelle Selig seems just plain right.21AUG2026Dear Charlotte,I cried yesterday. Tears welled in my lower lids. My throat closed. A silent, existential cry.There are three, was four, but three people to whom I could croak words of the horro
The Valley (opens the original)
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Hey, this is I. M. Aiken, in late August 2026. My third novel drops in late September. Captain Henry: 2 ½ Insurrections, 2 Wars, 1 ¼ Centuries, and a Story of Love has been described as a, “A contemporary perspective of American warfare that reminds readers of Hellers’ Catch 22 and Hooker’s MASH.” The stories are based on my first-hand journals from Iraq in 2006 and Reconstruction-era archives about my great grandfather, who enlisted as an underaged private in 1870 then later lead troops in Cuba
It Matters (opens the original)
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Follow along with my audio here: AUDIO BY AUTHORIn my daily phone call to my former assistant chief, I relayed the conclusion of a twenty-year drama that I have yet failed to reconcile. Andy tells me a fresh story from his year in Vietnam, thus reminding us both that history matters, the names matter, respect matters. I face injustice with anger, with frustration, and with a sense of utter bewilderment. I wish to yell: That is just wrong.I woke this morning knowing my story slated for August 202
It Matters (opens the original)
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The Third Law of Honor dictates that those engaged in public service, who take then uphold oaths, put themselves at personal risk can expect an equal and opposite commitment from the government that asked them to step up. This bilateral commitment involves telling the truth when it comes to sacrifices made by people on behalf of our nation. We don’t get to discount the cost of sacrifice, we don’t get to dismiss benefits, injury, or death because it fails to meet the narrative of the day. When we
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