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A Butcher with a Smile
Who's the Worst Character on 'Succession?'
May 26
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Jordan Watland
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March 2023
The Saints
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…
Mar 19
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Jordan Watland
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December 2022
Give Her the Novel
(A Response to Joan Didion)
Dec 29, 2022
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Jordan Watland
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July 2019
Abortion Fights are About Fear
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…
Jul 12, 2019
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Jordan Watland
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Tempting Indictment by Association
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…
Jul 9, 2019
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Jordan Watland
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April 2019
A Long Drive
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…
Apr 8, 2019
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Jordan Watland
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February 2019
A Big What-if
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…
Feb 25, 2019
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Jordan Watland
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October 2018
Committing to Maybe
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…
Oct 26, 2018
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Jordan Watland
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July 2018
The Preemptive Life of Ophelia Soderholm
Many stories depend on setting; without a certain setting they cannot be true; the stories become impossible and false in new environments. Other…
Jul 7, 2018
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Jordan Watland
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June 2018
She Asks About Work
A Last Conversation
Jun 23, 2018
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Jordan Watland
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Life in Our Silences
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…
Jun 20, 2018
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Jordan Watland
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I Don’t Know.
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…
Jun 8, 2018
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Jordan Watland
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