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Something broke finally when he came upon three men firing at a dog they’d corned between buildings on the northside of town. This was when the fighting…
Jordan Watland

December 2022

(A Response to Joan Didion)
Jordan Watland

July 2019

‪It’s an absurd supposition, i.e. bases for an argument, that those who are against abortion care about life. We hear staunch leftists say, If you care…
Jordan Watland
When one sets out to imagine the most despicable acts a person might be capable of effecting upon another person, any number of gut-churning fantasies…
Jordan Watland

April 2019

After he retired, he continued to leave the house every morning at 8am and every evening at 5pm, promptly, in order to hit rush hour traffic. Though he…
Jordan Watland

February 2019

What if the President of the United States were a con artist? Okay. Okay. But stay with me, now. Here’s where it gets weird: What if, in addition to…
Jordan Watland

October 2018

When I was nine years old I landed flat on my back on the water from a five meter diving platform. I knocked the wind out of myself. I was trying to do…
Jordan Watland

July 2018

Many stories depend on setting; without a certain setting they cannot be true; the stories become impossible and false in new environments. Other…
Jordan Watland

June 2018

A Last Conversation
Jordan Watland
Kurt Vonnegut never wrote a story with a villain in it. He learned this from an anthropology class at his university where they taught, according to…
Jordan Watland
When things come at us in pairs, we must stop, we must worry, we must wonder. We must wonder how to answer the deaths of public figures that have posed…
Jordan Watland

February 2018

If you’re thinking maybe this time is different, maybe congress will bring an option to the floor, if you’re thinking maybe a committee will have a…
Jordan Watland
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