HeyJaredTurtle Meat Mixtapes
Gen X writer with a fake name—roamin’ the Dirty South with incense smoke & mixtape ghosts. Sometimes fiction, always true: stories stitched from kudzu, cigar boxes, found faith, & the ridiculocity of having raised ourselves.
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Apparently, I Do This Now (opens the original)
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I keep finding myself in rooms—and on stages—that the old version of me would never have entered.See, a year or so ago, I might have scrolled the list of Things About Town and seen this storytelling workshop. I might’ve clicked it. I might have even thought it sounded interesting.And then…Nope.Next.Because who signs up for a four-hour storytelling workshop that includes improv and the possibility of getting onstage with a microphone?Apparently 2026 Me does.A college professor here in town taught
Freely I Roam (opens the original)
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Y’all. I told my voice teacher that I hated The Ash Grove.I did. I went in there one day and I said, “Listen, this is why I haven’t really been practicing at home. I don’t like this song.”And she didn’t hate me. She didn’t kick me out. She didn’t even seem particularly wounded on behalf of Welsh folk music.She said, “Well, that’s okay.”But maybe I need to back up.A few months ago, I walked down a sidewalk to my first voice lesson. I was
My Usual Wednesday Post (opens the original)
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Here’s Wednesday’s piece. At 9 a.m. Thursday.I don’t know if y’all missed me yesterday.Probably not.But sometime in the middle of the night, I woke up with the sudden realization that I had completely forgotten to publish my Wednesday Turtle Meat piece.I’m trying to do this little dance with another publication and don’t want us to get out of step. Apparently that requires knowing what day of the week it is.I have not been particularly good at that this week. And maybe I can give a little update
Other Devotions (opens the original)
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Here is my submission for this week’s Stories from the Jukebox prompt, Copper Canteen by James McMurtry, chosen by .Subscribe nowShe came in from the woods and found him dozing in his chair. He'd been up since before dawn, working in his studio when she left for her walk. A collage or a painting or something. She wasn't sure—there were
Turns Out, We're Hard to Handle (opens the original)
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Here is my submission for this week’s Stories from the Jukebox prompt, Stone by Whiskey Myers chosen by for his Jukebox Anniversary. It’s MJ’s Jukebox anniversary. And he picked Stone by Whiskey Myers as the prompt. And I guess that song reminded me of the before me—the one who wondered whether there was anything left.Maybe not love, exactly.But.Want.
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