Jason Van Tatenhove

This Is Estes! Vampires aren’t real — But sometimes the way power drains the lifeblood out of a mountain community sure makes you wonder...

New Halloween story on The Colorado Switchblade: “This Is Estes!”
A D&D night at The Wheel turns into a small-town horror show.
Vampires aren’t real — but power still sucks the life out of a place.
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Paperback + eBook coming soon to support a friend’s recovery fund.

Just approved the final dust cover jacket design for my new book coming out in a few months! I think it looks great!

They Knew - Chapter 13 The Shape of What’s Coming…

They Knew - Chapter 13
🚨 New chapter of They Knew is live.
A baby ripped from a mother’s arms. A riot sparked by glitter and grief.
Phoebee’s network is waking up—and so is the resistance.
Read it now! #TheyKnew #ResistanceFiction
www.coloradoswitchblade.com/p/they-knew-...

We are now literally living through EVERYTHING Star Trek warned us about! /sigh

Nights of BLUE SKIES
(sound up, please listen)

DAY 22 JUNE 2025

THESE TUMULTUOUS TIMES

More than one war happening now

Please listen to the whole clip

ICE GESTAPO WAR on
Decent Hardworking People

Meet the "Neighborhood Kids Music"

Listen to Their TRUTH
Walk in Their Shoes
Powerful

We are At War now, according to President Bush, and I take him at his word. He also says this War might last for "a very long time." Generals and military scholars will tell you that eight or 10 years is actually not such a long time in the span of human history - which is no doubt true - but history also tells us that 10 years of martial law and a wartime economy are going to feel like a Lifetime to people who are in their twenties today. The poor bastards of what will forever be known as Generation Z are doomed to be the first generation of Americans who will grow up with a lower standard of living than their parents enjoyed. That is extremely heavy news, and it will take a while for it to sink in. The 22 babies born in New York City while the World Trade Center burned will never know what they missed. The last half of the 20th century will seem like a wild party for rich kids, compared to what's coming now. The party's over, folks.

From Hunter S. Thompson’s ESPN page 2 column one week after 9/11.

They Knew - Chapter 12 She Needs Hands...

🚨 New Chapter Alert 🚨
They Knew – Chapter 12: “She Needs Hands”
Phoebee demands to build. Ægis is waking up wrong. And in a heat-choked trailer, a teenager hears a voice that might just change everything.
Read it now:
www.coloradoswitchblade.com/p/they-knew-...
#TheyKnew #CliFi #Dystopia

Something doesn’t feel right here…are those deck shoes? Not very tactical…

Very old school!

This is the way.

“All of the bullshit and the lies that are being told — who else is going to tell the truth, besides the artists!?”

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One more…

She’s going to be one hell of a photojournalist someday.
Already is, really—her photos have landed in Newsweek and other outlets, just from being by my side and seeing the world with that sharp, intuitive eye.
Proud dad moment.

Took my 16-year-old daughter to the No Kings Day protest at CSU/FoCo. She’s been documenting social movements with me since the Floyd rallies in Estes—
and damn if she isn’t already outshooting half the legacy outlets when it comes to capturing raw emotion.

🚨 NEW CHAPTER 🚨
This week in They Knew, drone swarms shadow ICE agents as Denver erupts. Fiction meets reality in this cyberpunk resistance story.
📍 Capitol Hill.
🛰️ AI. Protest. Defiance.

Read it now → www.coloradoswitchblade.com
#TheyKnew #ResistanceFiction

A new documentary film just hit that I’m featured in. The Guardian even mentioned my spot. available on most streaming services

As of today it was the 6th most watched documentary on Apple and had an amazing 93% Fresh Rating on Rotten Tomatoes!

I’m featured in the last 15 minutes of the film.

‘A cynical ploy to hold power’: how the US right has exploited racial division In the documentary White with Fear, an insidious long-running campaign to villainize people of color in the US is laid bare

Just got a mention in The Guardian for the doc I was featured in—White With Fear is getting rave reviews and stirring up real conversations. Cool to be part of something this timely.

🎥 Read the review: www.theguardian.com/film/2025/ma...

At least we still
Have music at red rocks! 🤘
#writerslife #coloradolove

They Knew - Chapter 9 The New Hill

🚨 They Knew Ch. 9 is live.
Spray paint. Drone cover. A mother with a baby.
ICE on the street. A crowd that finally says no.
This is where fiction starts fighting back.
📖 www.coloradoswitchblade.com/p/they-knew-...
#TheyKnew #FictionAsProtest

I can’t live anywhere else but the mountains. They are my main source of zen.

Thanks, one sees scenes like that so often living in the mountains where i do, one almost takes it for granted…almost

A glimpse from my midafternoon after writing exercise break…
#writerslife #coloradolove #kayak

YouTube video by Jason Van Tatenhove They Knew – Chapter One

I walked away from journalism to write the truth in fiction.
The first chapter of They Knew is live—read aloud, raw and real.
This is resistance storytelling.
Burn it down...build something better for everyone
Watch: 🔗 youtu.be/E6nflFJLli4
#TheyKnew #DystopianFiction #ResistanceThroughFiction

They arrested the mayor of Newark for trying to inspect an ICE facility in his own city.

This is why I write They Knew.
Because journalism’s gutted.
Because fiction smuggles truth through the algorithms.
Because they can’t ban what looks like a story—until it’s too late

#TheyKnew #FictionIsProtest

I was just thinking the exact same thing—almost (but time to stop writing and watch the latest andor)

Thanks for the rp. If you’re interested in reading the project I update weekly. (It’s fiction but based on what’s happening to us—and how we us can stand up and fight back…well it’s getting there soon anyways and it’s free free to read. you can find all the chapters here: www.coloradoswitchblade.com

I’ve been writing about it…from my serialized novel project this week. Where I’ve been processing just how crazy our word
Has gotten…