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Jason Simon

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Jason Simon is a high school English teacher and author from the United States. He and his wife Jennifer spent more than a decade traveling and working outside the U.S. in Cairo, Egypt; Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam and Beijing and Shenzhen, China before resettling in Northeast Ohio in 2021. He writes primarily about American expatriate life and about viewing one's own country from abroad.

His work has appeared in publications such as Medium Chill, Masque & Spectacle and All Persons Fictitious. His first short story collection World Sick: Stories was published in 2019 while his most recent project Repatriated: A Novel is available via Kindle Vella. Much of his short fiction can be found at All Persons Fictitious while his nonfiction writing ab ...more

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	World Sick: Stories 4.33 avg rating — 6 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Red Bunny and Blue Bunny (Don’t) Build a Treehouse: A Goal-Setting Lesson on Starting with Why by KC Aubin (Goodreads Author), Rebecca McKinney (editor), Jason Simon (Goodreads Author) (illustrator) 4.60 avg rating — 5 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Medium Chill: Issue 3 by Rhonda Baughman, Jason Simon (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) 4.50 avg rating — 4 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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Repatriated on Kindle Vella

If you're among my TENS of readers, you may have noticed that I haven't published anything new in my novel-in-progress Repatriated in a while. It's been a busy time with big life changes, new surroundings, etc.

Anyway, the point is that I've decided to migrate Repatriated to Amazon's Kindle Vella platform, which seems to make more sense for what I'm working on and even lead to additional tens of r Read more of this blog post »

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Published on September 14, 2021 11:15 • Tags: fiction, satire, serialized

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“Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime.”
― Mark Twain, The Innocents Abroad / Roughing It

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“I should be used to the way Americans dress when traveling, yet it still manages to amaze me. It’s as if the person next to you had been washing shoe polish off a pig, then suddenly threw down his sponge saying, “Fuck this. I’m going to Los Angeles!”
― David Sedaris, Let's Explore Diabetes with Owls

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