# THE LOUD SILENCE


## Posts

- [Softness Is Not Surrender](https://theloudsilence.com/softness-is-not-surrender/): Water is soft. Ask stone what patience can do. Skin is soft.
- [How He Held the Glass](https://theloudsilence.com/how-he-held-the-glass/): I arrived in pieces, each edge convinced it was the whole truth. He did not ask
- [Apology in Work Boots](https://theloudsilence.com/apology-in-work-boots/): He cannot say sorry without feeling naked. So he arrives Saturday with timber,
- [What the Fist Forgot](https://theloudsilence.com/what-the-fist-forgot/): Before it was a fist, the hand knew other work. It held a crayon. Buttoned a school shirt.
- [The Good Knife](https://theloudsilence.com/the-good-knife/): My father keeps one knife sharper than conversation. It slices rope, fruit,
- [Masculinity, with the Batteries Removed](https://theloudsilence.com/masculinity-with-the-batteries-removed/): Without the shouting, the engine noise, the need to win every doorway, what remains?
- [The Men at the Bar](https://theloudsilence.com/the-men-at-the-bar/): They sit shoulder to shoulder, facing bottles because eye contact is intimate. One lost a job.
- [Instructions for Sons](https://theloudsilence.com/instructions-for-sons/): Your father is mortal. Notice early. Ask about his childhood before memory sells the house.
- [Anger Is a Borrowed Dog](https://theloudsilence.com/anger-is-a-borrowed-dog/): Anger arrives pulling the lead, all teeth and urgent muscle. It says bite. It says protect.
- [The Boy in the Bathroom Mirror](https://theloudsilence.com/the-boy-in-the-bathroom-mirror/): He practises a hard face above the sink. Jaw forward. Eyes dry.
- [Father, Sleeping](https://theloudsilence.com/father-sleeping/): For once he is not keeping watch. A poem by Justin Hatchett, from The Stars Were Mostly Side Effects.
- [A Place for the Voices That Refuse to Disappear](https://theloudsilence.com/a-place-for-the-voices-that-refuse-to-disappear/): For the voices talked over, written off, left outside. A little room where the words can finally put their bags down.
- [The Creative Power of Being Heard](https://theloudsilence.com/the-creative-power-of-being-heard/): Some words sit in the chest for years. Give them a page, a little air, somebody willing to listen.

## Pages

- [Justin Hatchett’s Work](https://theloudsilence.com/justin-hatchetts-work/): Poems, pictures, and other evidence that I was here.
- [Donor Dashboard](https://theloudsilence.com/donor-dashboard/)
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- [Donation Confirmation](https://theloudsilence.com/donation-confirmation/)
- [The Quiet Ones Room](https://theloudsilence.com/quiet-ones-room/): Some rooms ask you to be impressive. This one asks you to pull up a chair.
- [Support The Loud Silence](https://theloudsilence.com/support/): Poetry has never been particularly good at paying the electricity bill. I have had a stern conversation with it. Nothing changed.
- [The Loud Silence Community Guidelines](https://theloudsilence.com/community-guidelines/): The Loud Silence is a home for poems, paintings, conversation, and the people who sometimes find it easier to say something through art.
- [The Quiet Ones' Forums](https://theloudsilence.com/writers-rooms/): PICK A DOOR. BRING YOUR WHOLE SELF.
- [Member Sign Out](https://theloudsilence.com/member-logout/): There will still be a chair for you when you return.
- [Reset Your Password](https://theloudsilence.com/member-password-reset/): Happens to the best of us. There is a way back in.
- [The Quiet Ones — Member Directory](https://theloudsilence.com/members/): An author. An artist. Someone who understands the sentence you have been trying to finish.
- [Your Member Account](https://theloudsilence.com/member-account/): Update your details, safeguard your privacy, and make this space yours.
- [Your Creative Profile](https://theloudsilence.com/member-profile/): A photograph, a few honest words, and whatever parts of your story you wish to share.
- [Member Sign In](https://theloudsilence.com/member-login/): The door is where you left it. Come inside.
- [Join The Loud Silence](https://theloudsilence.com/join/): There is no entrance examination for belonging. A name, a little courage, and a chair at the table will do.
- [The Founding Members of The Loud Silence](https://theloudsilence.com/founding-members/): A permanent tribute to the founding people of The Loud Silence, honoured without financial rankings.
- [My Account](https://theloudsilence.com/my-account/)
- [Checkout](https://theloudsilence.com/checkout/)
- [Cart](https://theloudsilence.com/cart/)
- [Books & Support](https://theloudsilence.com/books-support/): Catalogue preview. Please ask about availability, pricing and delivery before ordering. Online checkout is not open yet.
- [Mental Health Resources](https://theloudsilence.com/mental-health-resources/): Some days the page stays blank. That’s allowed.
- [Community](https://theloudsilence.com/community/): A chair for the quiet ones. A little room for the words that get talked over.
- [Events](https://theloudsilence.com/events/): A notebook. A stubborn sentence. Somebody else doing the same. Ask about writing sessions and bring the unfinished page.
- [Submit Your Work](https://theloudsilence.com/submit-your-work/): Send the poem you nearly threw away. The few lines that wouldn’t leave you alone.
- [Authors](https://theloudsilence.com/authors/): Behind every page is a person who kept going long enough to write it.
- [Poetry & Art](https://theloudsilence.com/poetry-art/): For the voices talked over, written off, left outside. A little room where the words can finally put their bags...
- [Voices](https://theloudsilence.com/voices/): Where Silence Becomes Expression Some feelings are difficult to say aloud. They may arrive as loneliness, uncertainty, grief, anger, or...
- [About](https://theloudsilence.com/about/): Justin Hatchett started The Loud Silence for the words that had nowhere decent to sleep.
- [Home](https://theloudsilence.com/): For the ones who refuse to disappear.

## Products

- [The Stars Were Mostly Side Effects](https://theloudsilence.com/product/the-stars-were-mostly-side-effects/): A book about bipolar, psychosis, survival and other bad interior decorating choices. Some nights need company.
- [The Loud Silence II: The Quiet Ones](https://theloudsilence.com/product/the-loud-silence-ii-the-quiet-ones/): Four Seasons of Love, Loss and the Stubborn Art of Staying. For the ones still here.
- [The Loud Silence — Volume 2: Poetry and Prose](https://theloudsilence.com/product/the-loud-silence-volume-2-poetry-and-prose/): Another stack of pages for the untidy business of being human. Poetry and prose, with room for the ache.
- [The Loud Silence](https://theloudsilence.com/product/the-loud-silence/): The first room. The first words. A book for the things we carry quietly.

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