The Water Is So Wide is a Substack newsletter featuring serialized fiction by Julie Weigley. Raising philosophical questions via fiction. New chapters now posting every other Friday.
Novels previously posted here on Substack:
The Water Is So Wide. A novella composed of a series of interconnecting vignettes that examine the persistence of love and art, and the universality of that persistence.
Beautiful but Unlikely. Coming of age and taking the measure of a man in the late 1980s. Turning the inward gaze outward.
Four Months in May. A quarantine fever dream. A love letter to resilience. An ode to energy, optimism, and a future as bright and scary as the unknown.
Up next:
Does time heal all wounds or merely create new ones? A tale of consequences, acceptance, and forgiveness. Starting in January 2025.
Please note: These are works of fiction. Any references to historical events, people, or places are used fictitiously, with the exception of the Notes, References, and Shoutouts Supplements. Other characters, places, and events are products of the author’s imagination, and any resemblance to actual events, places or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.
