Jordan Hagedon

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

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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

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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.

If you’ve sent me a text and I didn’t respond please know that I didn’t forget you, you’ll live on in my subconscious as a vague sense of dread forever

wish there was a way to romanticize a standard-issue chain-link fence

Butterfly Woman Effect by Mizuki Yamagen The girl’s mother had a rule: not to whistle at night because the ghosts would come. But all girls are curious so she whistled anyway. When her mother caught her she was scolded. After that, she stopp...

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a painting of a woman surrounded by water lilies with her eyes closed ALT: a painting of a woman surrounded by water lilies with her eyes closed

today's word is patience

An illustration of a bowl filled with crocuses, together with a small identification guide of other spring flowers, including grape hyacinth and sparaxis

Indoor gardening (1969)

Artist: BH Robinson

allergies surprise me every single year

rabbit is my fav species of chocolate

i hate when writers use the word "saunter" it makes me gag

Sharing success stories:

Your friend who works any other job: I got a promotion!

You, a writer: An editor said they admired my story even though it wasn’t a good fit for their journal at this time.

few things make me feel as happy as a severe weather warning in spring and summer

The Heuchera Grounds From the Jordan Vault

another one from the vault. blowing kisses to eldritch journal rip

Otaria, the Southern Sea Lion — Tetrapod Zoology I haven’t written much on pinnipeds (seal, sea lions and walruses) here at ver 4. Here’s a recycling of material originally published at ver 2 way back in 2007, enjoy! I haven’t updated it…

I've said it before and I'll say it again... sea lions are just awesome. A #pinniped-themed article at Tetrapod Zoology .... tetzoo.com/blog/2025/3/... #marinemammals #otariids #seals

cannot believe that the leaf blowing has already begun

COLD SUNSHINE ON MY FACE

The Ugly One From the Jordan Vault

the ugly one is real and it's coming after u

In the morning I open my window and blow kisses out into the sky and I time it just right so when you read “here is a nice mushroom” one of them hits you on the forehead

what my kids need to understand is that the unwatchable trash from my childhood is precious, while the unwatchable trash they love is the killer of minds

feb 10: i've finally had enough of the color grey

Hey man sorry to hear about all your political turmoil. Would it help if I scrolled around on the computer all day and drove myself insane?

title: anna karenina
subtitle: how to forcibly back yourself into a corner over and over again