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The Place Where I’ll Be Buried

by Annaka Koster | Aug 26, 2023 | Holland

It was a joke when I turned to my sister and asked, “I dunno, do you wanna share a spinsters’ grave with me?”

There and Back Again—A Review

by Natasha (Strydhorst) Unsworth | Aug 25, 2023 | Placeless

I, too, am a member of the convenience cult.

My Second Education

by Joshua Polanski | Aug 24, 2023 | Placeless

YouTube democratized intellectual pursuits, complicated ideas, and real academic debates.

How Am I Supposed to Retire?

by Mitchell Barbee | Aug 23, 2023 | Placeless

I’m still holding out on winning the lottery on a ticket I’ll never buy.

Ode to the Atlanta Driver

by Kate DeHaan | Aug 22, 2023 | Georgia

While this might seem like an emergency scenario, it was, in fact, because there was no parking next to a music venue for Ubers to pick up drunk patrons.

Good Lessons from Bad TV

by Emily Joy Stroble | Aug 21, 2023 | Placeless

Even twaddle contains some truth.

Nice to Meet You, I’m Parker

by Parker Yeo | Aug 20, 2023 | Grand Rapids

The new people I met starting junior year never knew me as Purun but as Parker.

The Mortifying and the Mundane

by Hannah McNulty | Aug 19, 2023 | Placeless

I assume one of Dante’s pit stops is a level of hell where you show up to a party whose host likes you well enough but wasn’t expecting you to come.

I Was An Angel

by Isaac DeBoer | Aug 18, 2023 | Placeless

Her brother looked excited and said, “Wow, I didn’t think that would work!”

How to Feel like Anne Hathaway in ‘The Devil Wears Prada’ Even Though You Live in Cincinnati and Work in Digital Marketing

by Carlisle Patete | Aug 17, 2023 | Placeless

Here is how you, too, can feel like you are a magazine mogul’s stressed assistant.

How to Feel like Anne Hathaway in Devil Wears Prada Even Though You Live in Cincinnati and Work in Digital Marketing

by Carlisle Patete | Aug 17, 2023 | Placeless

An insecure paramour who is jealous of your Big Girl Job is one of the most important elements to solidifying your DWP life.

Rating the bathrooms of Cuyahoga National Park

by Tiffany Kajiwara | Aug 16, 2023 | Ohio

There might still be a piece of my tooth there.

Homesick

by Courtney Zonnefeld | Aug 15, 2023 | Grand Rapids, Iowa

When you visit a city you once called home, a part of you settles even as another part slides out of place.

Dreamless in Detroit

by Noah Keene | Aug 14, 2023 | Detroit

This isn’t VeggieTales.

The Warmth of Community

by Olivia Harre | Aug 13, 2023 | Frankfort, Michigan

They made a makeshift cardboard torch from our flame and took it to help light a fire for their kids.

Message in a Bottle

by Jack Kamps | Aug 12, 2023 | New Jersey

That was what we really wanted, to crash into each wave, gasping and reaching for each other to prepare for the next one.

Chairs, Mate.

by Gabrielle Eisma | Aug 11, 2023 | Placeless

The chair that always had yogurt cups tucked into its corners!

Bullet Journal Guy

by Philip Rienstra | Aug 10, 2023 | Placeless

I had never learned to actually do creative work in the first place.

Uninspiring Holidays, Detailed

by Gwyneth Findlay | Aug 9, 2023 | Canada, Michigan, Scotland

If you lived in Manitoba, you could at least call today Terry Fox Day. But then you would live in Manitoba.

The Enduring Value of The Babysitters Club

by Susannah Boersma | Aug 7, 2023 | Ohio

Excuse me while I go buy a fedora.

Confession

by Hannah Riffell | Aug 6, 2023 | Michigan

What if you just need more time to have a look around?

The Memory of a Screen

by Alex Johnson | Aug 5, 2023 | Placeless

It is forever in the way that every teenager screenshots a text message to send to a friend in disbelief, in the way that grandmothers download pictures off of Facebook and print them out.

A Trip Down the Memory Expressway

by Kipp De Man | Aug 4, 2023 | Grand Rapids

I imagine telling my story to someone; spin a future where there wasn’t a pandemic anymore, and I wasn’t working at a warehouse anymore, and I wasn’t alone anymore.