Jordan Hagedon

Doing art badly is good and sacred

Clapping my flippers together and honking like a harbor seal when a Super Bowl ad for a condiment or gambling app featuring two celebrities unexpectedly reveals a third celebrity as its punchline. Bouncing a ball around on my snout. My wife has to throw me a herring to get me to calm down.

favorite shark folklore? and/or fav shark book?

brass solidarity band performing “stand by me” in the streets of whittier next to alex pretti’s memorial. the crowd started chanting “the people united will never be defeated” so they incorporated it into the song. i love minneapolis

and the great shroud of the sea rolled on as it rolled five thousand years ago

really fucking enjoyed The Empusium. wish it was way way longer i wasn't ready for it to be over

cooly accepting strange ceramic sounds in the early morning dark

i want to be in the woods

somebody better shut that chipmunk up (squeaking endlessly in the backyard)

Observe The House From The Jordan Vault: WAIT FOR A BETTER SIGN

an old story finally seeing the light of day

Incredible Din From the Jordan Vault

glimmer train liked this one way back in 2016 xo

A male rock ptarmigan (Lagopus muta) in winter plumage.

Ptarmigan is from Gaelic 'tarmachan' meaning "croaker". The p- was added when people mistakenly assumed it was a Greek word.

A bird forever warning people: "A werewolf!" (just in case of werewolves).

dancing in my mirror like i'm 17

a full moon shines brightly in the night sky ALT: a full moon shines brightly in the night sky

moon energy at 9:58 AM

WOMAN KILLED BY CAR – DRAGGED From The Jordan Vault

"jesus christ! i'm going to vomit" read my latest short story here <3

Deadland From the Jordan Vault

hiding hiding hiding between the aisles of the video store #personalessay #creativenonfiction #write #substack #horrorfilm

Always Been So Where is your wife? Where is she?

where did your neighbor's wife go? where is she?

A dahlia in the rain

We still have this.

Silence From the Jordan Vault

black cat black cat what happened to the black cat

the lingering migraine: a tale of vomit and despair

i can't be trusted to water plants, to manage a garden. it's something that makes me sad!

it feels almost physically painful to write this goddamn book

True Name A Fairy Tale from the Jordan Vault

read my latest here

Neighborhood Benign who is knocking at the door?

shhhh.. who's at the door?
#writesky #flashfiction #lyricalfiction #suburbs #neighborhood

june 2025

Vapor Villa something's burning, something's burning, something's burning

read my latest story here

breeze, green leaves, birds, sunshine, shadows, happy happyhappyhappy

Juvenile school shark Galeorhinus cuvieri and the weird ray-finned fish, Dibango hiding in a sea grass meadow. Early Eocene Bolca site, Italy.

Another piece for the forthcoming shark book, this was inspired by a John Dory I saw during a dive I did years ago off the Dorset coast in south England.