JASON HASKINS

Once, in the hallowed grounds of this website, I wrote and published a monthly newsletter apprising loyal readers what I had been up to. Mostly, this revolved around what I'd been writing and working on, plus what I'd been watching, reading, and listening to. So, basically, the art created, the art consumed. Over time, updates disappeared. Life went on. Consider this post a rare return to a previous iteration of past life, here in the present, with an update in the world of J

"Travel far enough, you meet yourself." - Ralph Waldo Emerson Take a journey with me, if you will, back to October of the year 2000. Meet the Parents starring Robert DeNiro and Ben Stiller topped the box office. Creed and 3 Doors Down were rockin' the Billboard charts. The Chicago Cubs defeated the Pittsburgh Pirates 10-9 in the final baseball game at Three Rivers Stadium in Pittsburgh. The 100th Space Shuttle mission is flown. And on television, The Gilmore Girls debuted

“I am not giving up. We will have the best Christmas dinner, slim pickings as they are. We will do Christmas our way, albeit different, less so than in the past.”

The family, comfortably apart, standing alongside one another in a line, stared at the cabin. A minute of silence passed before Sterling mumbled, “Are we going in or what?”

Holding hands across the middle seat of a boxed moving truck, Griffin and Daisy Gladwin looked at their once comfortable, three-bedroom, two bath home for the final time.

Sonya's Summer of Solitude is available to purchase in paperback ($13.99) or to download ($3.27). Intended for a middle grade audience, the book is perfect for ages 10+

The following short story, "Stolen Memories of Yesteryear", was originally written for a submission to The First Line . Each quarter, the...

"I celebrate myself, and sing myself And what I assume, you shall assume For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you." - Walt...

Originally written in 2018 and posted on The Journey of Now blog, The Art of Boiling Water is a piece of short fiction. Below is a...

Written in January 2018, Saturday Night is Alright for Writing is a piece of flash fiction that originally appeared on The Journey of Now...

One of my personal projects in 2025 is moving a selection of my creative writing from The Journey of Now blog over to my site....

This short satire first appeared on The Journey of Now blog on (or around) Father's Day 2017. The piece concluded with this sentiment:...

The following is a piece of short fiction I wrote that originally appeared on The Journey of Now blog in March 2017. The first line, "We...

In 2025, one of the projects I am working on is moving a selection of short fiction, monologues, and other stories from The Journey of Now...

Written on New Year's Eve 2016, the following piece of short fiction originally appeared on The Journey of Now blog. Here, the story...

The following story, Two A.M. Love, I submitted to a contest in 2016 and appeared on The Journey of Now blog the same year. This flash...

Here is a short story, On the Precipice of the Stars, that originally appeared on The Journey of Now blog in October of 2014. Prior in...

In 2025, one of the projects I am working on is moving a selection of short fiction, monologues, and other stories from The Journey of Now...

One of the projects I am working on in 2025 is moving a portion of my writing from The Journey of Now blog over to my website. This...

In 2025, I am moving a handful of writing from my The Journey of Now blog over to this website. This monologue 'Desperation' was...