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Welcome to Life on a Fault Line, a newsletter by Will Foster-Schmidt. These are personal essays written from the wreckage and the rebuilding — honest writing about grief, the dissolution of a marriage, the strange consolation of music, and what it looks like to keep becoming a person through all of it.

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Life on a Fault Line is published on Substack. Each essay is a piece of long-form personal writing — the kind that takes time to read and longer to forget.
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