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About Life on a Fault Line

Casylus Media horizontal banner Life on a Fault Line is written by Will Foster-Schmidt and published by Casylus Media. It began as writing from inside grief and the collapse of a marriage. It has become something wider and less obedient: a body of essays about attachment, violence, family, survival, memory, identity, and the impossible persistence of love. Much of the work comes from the aftermath of a same-sex violent marriage, but the publication is not confined to that event. The marriage is one fault line. There are others: childhood, addiction, work, music, politics, language, the body, the dead, and the people we keep loving after sense has left the building.

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The work

The essays are stark because the subject requires it. They are unsentimental because sentimentality lies. They use humour because sometimes the alternative is screaming into furniture. This is not advice writing. It is not a recovery brand. It is not a performance of uplift. The work is testimony, criticism, memoir, music writing, political anger, and emotional archaeology. It keeps returning to one question: why do humans continue to love when loss is not a risk but a certainty?

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Casylus Media

Casylus Media is the publisher and imprint around the work. Life on a Fault Line remains the publication: the place where the essays live, gather shape, and find readers.

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