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About Me — Jay Squires

A cautionary tale (with a takeaway): how this writer chose to cook up his life from scratch without a recipe

9 min readApr 4, 2024

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A long winding, sandy road, with wild roses at the beginning — the road stretching far into the distance

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Ellemeno

What Stephen King, Mrs. Bain, and Yours Truly Have in Common

Even when popular opinion is against us — sometimes, we must take a stand

8 min readJan 7, 2024

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What Stephen King, Mrs. Bain, and Yours Truly Have in Common

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The Writing Cooperative

Don’t Distance Your Readers by Leaving Your Subtitles Turned on

A simple technique to keep your readers in the alternate world you’ve created

8 min readNov 21, 2023

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Ripe, red tomatoes against a canvas background; Scrabble tiles spell out “Tomatoes”

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ILLUMINATION

Home Alone on New Year’s Eve …

A Time to reflect and to thank my Medium Brothers and Sisters for their support when the bottom of my world dropped out

4 min readJan 1, 2024

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Colorful ribbon and confetti on sidewalk

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The Narrative Arc

The View From the Window of My Tiny Stone Cottage

For the love of Miss Snider and Anna and me

12 min readOct 1, 2023

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A minimalist pen-and-ink drawing of lovers beneath a tree, in pastels of green and pink and blue

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Bouncin’ and Behaving Blogs TWO

My Son’s Parpsaninny’s Magnum Opus

Latin used advisedly.

8 min read12 hours ago

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My Son’s Parpsaninny’s Magnum Opus

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Ellemeno

Is Your Night’s “One-Third” Spent Rehearsing Your Day’s “Two-Thirds”?

Please, Dylan Thomas, do please let me go gentle into that good night

6 min read2 days ago

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Is Your Night’s “One-Third” Spent Rehearsing Your Day’s “Two-Thirds”?

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Crow’s Feet

Retirement: Life’s Disjointed Subplot

Thoughts about turning destination into activity and embracing your retirement as an outrageous late-life-engager

10 min read5 days ago

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A barren tree and a man beneath it, silhouetted against a red-to-gold sunset

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E³ — Entertain Enlighten Empower

Social Darwinism: America’s Darkest Hour

The history lesson whose century-and-a-half unwinding we can’t afford not to deeply worry about

11 min readMay 9, 2024

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Social Darwinism: America’s Darkest Hour

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The Kraken Lore

Vacancy at the Devilsmouth Hotel

Finding skulls in your Easter basket, here’s a little pre-Halloween horror for your springtime delectation

5 min readMay 4, 2024

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Devilsmouth Hotel

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Jay Squires

Jay Squires

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I AM an AUTHOR, salesman, optimist, dreamer: May the four always COHABIT & produce wondrous progeny. IN THE SWIRLING POOL OF LIFE, I'm an unflushable floater.

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