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52 Thoughts I Had While Watching Scooby-Doo on Zombie Island for the First Time in 20 Years
by Annaka Koster | Sep 26, 2023 | Placeless
“Could you enhance this image” on your 1990s camcorder? Sure.
“Bye-bye Puppy Girl”
by Natasha (Strydhorst) Unsworth | Sep 25, 2023 | Placeless
There were pandemic quarantines; were it up to her, they would have never ended.
My Failed Attempt to Understand Psychogeography (and Alan Moore’s ‘Jerusalem’)
by Joshua Polanski | Sep 24, 2023 | Placeless
It almost feels incompatibly bourgeois.
Spoilers: I Don’t Look for Them Anymore
by Mitchell Barbee | Sep 23, 2023 | Placeless
I don’t think I let myself experience the magic of an unspoiled narrative.
I Am Mrs. Nesbitt
by Kate DeHaan | Sep 22, 2023 | Placeless
Looking for my first job, it felt like Indeed was saying to me, “YOU ARE A TOY.”
The International Fishmonger and Other Friends
by Emily Joy Stroble | Sep 21, 2023 | Ethiopia
The more I think about it, the more memories I recall.
I Am What I Eat
by Parker Yeo | Sep 20, 2023 | Placeless
Every hobby has its own subculture, and eating is no different.
Ohio, and Other Forbidden Loves
by Hannah McNulty | Sep 19, 2023 | Ohio
Everywhere that has ever been called home by someone is beautiful.
Please Don’t Read This
by Isaac DeBoer | Sep 18, 2023 | Placeless
Like Shrek and onions, there’s layers to how I feel.
An Open Letter to My Cat
by Carlisle Patete | Sep 17, 2023 | Placeless
You’ll never experience true disappointment of losing your Duolingo streak.
First Boyfriends and Flaming Lanterns
by Tiffany Kajiwara | Sep 16, 2023 | Clio
As soon as I drew my first heart, Drew said, “I’m gonna draw a Goomba.”
Mental Mapping
by Courtney Zonnefeld | Sep 15, 2023 | California, Namibia
We drove over seven hours to watch Adri and ninety-nine other middle schoolers answer questions about culture, economics, and rivers I couldn’t pronounce.
Multiverse Grief
by Noah Keene | Sep 14, 2023 | Placeless
If the multiverse was real, I think we’d be an immature society.
Football Saturdays
by Olivia Harre | Sep 13, 2023 | Tennessee
It’s only 7:30 a.m., but there’s already a buzz in the air.
…And Always (re)Framing
by Jack Kamps | Sep 12, 2023 | New Jersey
What I did not expect was the particulars of the heist-movie level prank of which I was now the unwitting instigator.
I Survive 5 Minutes in Jurassic Park
by Gabrielle Eisma | Sep 11, 2023 | Michigan
Gabbie Eisma: a 5’2” woman of outstanding imagination and library fines. 23 years old. (Note to costumes manager: Eisma should be wearing a salmon-colored button-up shirt over a blue tank top, khaki shorts, round sunglasses, and hiking boots.) (Both booted feet come...
Direction
by Philip Rienstra | Sep 10, 2023 | Placeless
How am I back at square one again?
Set Your To-Read List Free
by Gwyneth Findlay | Sep 9, 2023 | Placeless
Read Piranesi by Susanna Clarke, on my recommendation, and gain no further information before reading.
Framed
by Josh Parks | Sep 8, 2023 | Virginia
When I picked it up in disbelief, the beautiful initial N stared (yes, manuscripts can stare) into my soul.
To All My Students, Past or Present
by Susannah Boersma | Sep 7, 2023 | Placeless
I bought this skirt on Etsy. I buy all of my skirts on Etsy.
Guide to Living with Your Parents
by Hannah Riffell | Sep 6, 2023 | Placeless
Scratch that. Best not to leave footprints either.
You Stay Inside All Day (Derogatory)
by Alex Johnson | Sep 5, 2023 | Placeless
Am I enabling students to become more withdrawn, to become more anxious about engaging with the world outside their computer screen?
At the Gate to the Rest of the World
by Kipp De Man | Sep 4, 2023 | Missouri
I’m trying to capture the same curiosity that led forty-two men westward to see what exactly the world was that unfurled for miles ahead of them.
It Gets Better
by Ansley Kelly | Sep 3, 2023 | Placeless
The world felt wide and untouched and while I was scared to hope, I wanted to believe that this was the part where I would find the joy.
Less, Please
by Christina Ribbens | Sep 2, 2023 | Placeless
Poetry is hard work, and mostly I forget it exists.
The Perfect Summer Meal
by Sam Tuit | Sep 1, 2023 | Placeless
They won’t need the little bit of butter you’ll add when they’re done but you’ll add it anyway.
On Losing a Pet
by Josiah Kinney | Aug 31, 2023 | Placeless
There’s still a bit of wildness in them that we can never control.
Nostalgia Content
by Katie Van Zanen | Aug 30, 2023 | Placeless
We can be forgiven, perhaps, for imagining the past as it is recorded to be both graspable and comprehensive.
On Change
by Cassie Westrate | Aug 29, 2023 | Placeless
I wanted a table again.
Twenty-Nine and Counting
by Jon Gorter | Aug 28, 2023 | Colorado, Michigan, Thailand
I carry a nostalgia the rest of the day that aches from the reality that some lives have been lived and some friendships have blurred.
