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Jack Dean
Creative Copywriter


A Red Country
I wish we had met in Cairo. Instead, we’re shaking hands in a sweaty little hotel room in Tobruk five hundred miles up the coast. Call...
Jack Dean
Jun 4, 20247 min read
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Cow Feet
Larimer County, Colorado, 1924 Jonah Henderson did everything out of hunger. He was a shark, both with cards and his appetite, and his...
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Jun 4, 202410 min read
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The Saracen & The Knight-Maker
They called him the Saracen. As though he was first amongst thousands. And to me he was. But I knew him first as Durras. He found me on...
Jack Dean
Jun 8, 20239 min read
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Cafuné
It took me close to a decade to visit my dad, and the old man couldn’t wait a two-hour flight to die. He gave it his best shot though,...
Jack Dean
Jun 8, 202311 min read
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Trees That Burn
‘Nothing wounded goes up hill.’ Cormac McCarthy ACT I He was a survivor of the years that belonged to tequila. His complementary...
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Jun 8, 202322 min read
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My Crime, The Dog
He pisses himself at half past one in the morning. The good news is we use the back of a drycleaners with an old fashioned washroom,...
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Jun 8, 20237 min read
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The Other Astronaut
Her heart stopped and I was only halfway through getting dressed. I looked up from my heavy boots, one set of buckles fully strapped the...
Jack Dean
Jun 8, 20239 min read
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Club
The sky was the colour of asphyxiated lips when he got the call. The woman next to him hardly stirred. His hand, clumsy and cold, gripped...
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Jun 8, 20234 min read
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The Werewood
Cinder engines burn behind me. Ashes falling out across stars. I lean against the wall, feeling that steady, bronchial hum of machinery....
Jack Dean
Jun 4, 20238 min read
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When Love Is Past
The form for love was laid out in front of her. Cheap stock paper that was a sickly pale white and the print rough enough to create a...
Jack Dean
Jun 4, 20234 min read
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