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A closer look at the story, its heart, and its echoes.
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A closer look at the story, its heart, and its echoes.
Enter →Step inside the house that held them. The rituals, the rooms, the people.
Enter →Objects. Places. Clues. The breadcrumbs that lead us back.
Enter →Thoughts on life, story, and everything in between.
Enter →A literary novel about memory, chosen family, grief, and the people who assemble themselves into a household when the first one doesn’t hold. Currently seeking representation.
Jacqueline Augustine writes literary fiction from Wisconsin about memory, attachment, grief, and the peculiar ways people invent families around one another.
I am interested in the moment a person becomes real to someone else.
Books, odd research, overheard sentences, objects with suspicious emotional significance, and other things that refused to stay where they were put.
A rotating shelf of novels, sentences, and pages that made the pencil come out.
Small human evidence. No names. Sometimes no context. Usually better that way.
The things stories ask to carry far more than objects reasonably should.