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The Most Serious Business
by Sam Tuit | Nov 1, 2025 | Placeless
It’s fun to imagine a conversation with myself from high school. There are things that would surprise him, and some that wouldn’t faze him, but one thing I know would make him jump up and down in the air with excitement: I’ve been podcasting about Homestuck for the...
Collective Joy at the State Fair
by Izzy Nunez | Oct 28, 2025 | North Carolina
I always have a healthy fear of fish cooked in a truck, but this was a revelation.
City on a Hill
by Anna Jeffries | Oct 27, 2025 | Washington, D.C.
D.C. is the only capital of a democratic country with no voting representation in the national legislature.
What the Mountain Is
by Annaka Koster | Oct 26, 2025 | New Mexico
Our mountains are mountains in the way that a teacup pig is livestock.
Illinois: Land of Abe Lincoln, the Vampire Hunter
by Sam Koster | Oct 25, 2025 | Illinois
What studio would take that kind of risk on a title that so clearly sounds like a joke?
I Lost My Words in Washington
by Sophia Medawar | Oct 24, 2025 | Washington
There’s something so thrilling about unbuckling your seatbelt and saying, “I don’t know!”
Memories of Mosquitoes and Maine
by Savannah Shustack | Oct 22, 2025 | Maine
I’ve never been lost, alone, on a mountain in Maine. My dad prepared me too well for that.
Co-lore-ado
by Emily Joy Stroble | Oct 21, 2025 | Colorado
It’s all in how you tell the story.
Sentimental Value
by Rylan Shewmaker | Oct 20, 2025 | Placeless
From the solace of our home, I got to reconfigure my relationship with my hometown and with my family.
Where Art Thou, Romeo?
by Luke Brandsen | Oct 19, 2025 | Alaska
What prompted a wolf, a classic archetype for the untamed and wild, to freely give his trust to a group of creatures he had no prior relationship with?
In-N-Out
by Priscilla Chang | Oct 18, 2025 | California
The word “overrated” set a burning fire in my soul, set on defending In-N-Out to the grave.
Go Birds!
by Carlisle Patete | Oct 17, 2025 | Pennsylvania
One thing I love about repping the Eagles is that I’m in good company.
A Different Kind of Presidential Palace
by Nathan Hilbrands | Oct 16, 2025 | North Dakora
Retreating into the solitude of the wilds is an image I associate with the greens of a beech-maple forest, not the muted browns of the prairie.
Three States, One Story
by Noah Keene | Oct 14, 2025 | Indiana, Michigan, Wisconsin
I assured her I wasn’t taller—there was so much Mormonism in the Utah air that it somehow made her shrink.
Anytime, Always
by Olivia Harre | Oct 13, 2025 | New York
Almost every house we pass, you know someone who lives there, or used to live there, or you used to live there.
An Unexpected Pit Stop
by Liana Hirner | Oct 12, 2025 | Nebraska
The words “vacation” and “Nebraska” should never belong in the same sentence.
Notes from a Near Southerner
by Eleanor Lee | Oct 11, 2025 | South Carolina
University of South Carolina, not United States Chicken
The Best and Worst Places in Minnesota
by Philip Rienstra | Oct 10, 2025 | Minnesota
Saw someone once with a bumper sticker that said “I’d rather be driving on Ayd Mill.”
Arkansas is The DREAM (not clickbait)
by Michelle Ferdinands | Oct 9, 2025 | Arkansas
I did what we all do when our souls are destroyed from capitalism: I took sick leave and ran away to Arkansas.
Driving to Page
by Josh Parks | Oct 8, 2025 | Arizona
I sent dozens of photos to my grandparents’ electronic photo frame.
IOWA
by Kate Wilmot | Oct 7, 2025 | Iowa
Here is a place the narrator longs for, a place whose very smallness and peacefulness my friends have always laughed at.
Has KFC Been Out-Kentuckied?
by Emilyn Shortridge | Oct 6, 2025 | Kentucky
So of course I had to try it for myself. For research.
On Earth As It Is In Heaven
by Alex Johnson | Oct 5, 2025 | Placeless
You can see why my elementary school brain latched onto Idaho.
Kansas
by Grace Buller | Oct 4, 2025 | Kansas
Every now and there, we’d pass windmills.
you exist within the context
by Madeline Witvliet | Oct 3, 2025 | Alabama
When my dad first suggested the trip, I’m sure I rolled my eyes—why did every family trip have to be so educational?
The DeMotte Mercantile & Sell-It-Again, Since 1910
by Christina Ribbens | Oct 2, 2025 | Indiana
That’s how I’ve always known it.
I’m Sorry
by Sam Tuit | Oct 1, 2025 | Ohio
now know the truth: such behavior is deplorable.
ChatGPT and the Process of Becoming
by Grace Hsu | Sep 30, 2025 | Placeless
There was certainly a sort of hubris involved—I don’t let a machine think for me.
Notes From [the] Underground Samaritan
by Anna Jeffries | Sep 27, 2025 | Placeless
A romantic war of moral good and evil without really wanting to realise that we’ve all fallen into the same trap.
God I Love Getting Older
by Sam Koster | Sep 25, 2025 | Placeless
I buy my own presents when the day is a bit rough.
