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First Queer Date
by Tiffany Kajiwara | Apr 16, 2023 | Placeless
Mental calculations fly through my head, and I cannot imagine a scenario where you kiss me and don’t spill soup all over both of us.
Chase Your Fears
by Courtney Zonnefeld | Apr 15, 2023 | Placeless
I stood up, ripped my curtain open, and saw the source of the commotion: a blackbird. Fluttering his wings. Inside my house.
Morally Ordered Public Transit
by Michal Rubingh | Apr 14, 2023 | Placeless
You’ll find some lawful bikers out there, but deep down they’re in it for the thrill.
Monday, March 27
by Olivia Harre | Apr 13, 2023 | Placeless
How could something so inexplicably awful happen on a day like that?
Death & Taxes
by Jack Kamps | Apr 12, 2023 | Placeless
I can’t help but feel that this is the year that something is going to go horribly wrong and the IRS will come after me—or worse, secretly owe me money that the return didn’t catch.
On Christina Koch
by Gabrielle Eisma | Apr 11, 2023 | Grand Rapids
As of March 2023, seventy-two women have flown in space.
But no woman has gone on a moon mission before.
I Was Wrong About: John Cage and 4’33’’
by Philip Rienstra | Apr 10, 2023 | Placeless
I was only halfway towards actually understanding which artistic boundaries needed to be enforced. That is, none of them.
The Edge: Arrokoth
by Gwyneth Findlay | Apr 9, 2023 | Placeless
It would take twenty months for that data to drip through the solar system. So I waited.
The Darkness of God: A Nighttime Liturgy
by Josh Parks | Apr 8, 2023 | Placeless
Conspiracies form at night. So do revolutions.
A Definitive List of Why Mr. Beaver is the Best
by Susannah Boersma | Apr 7, 2023 | Placeless
Finally, a man who understands you.
Trying to Meet God in Utah
by Hannah Riffell | Apr 6, 2023 | Utah
Utah has plenty of rocks—but not a single pebble seemed to be crying out.
Maybe I Just Can’t Resist Big Shiny Objects
by Alex Johnson | Apr 5, 2023 | Grand Rapids
Perhaps the Meijer family is more savvy than I give them credit for.
The Art of Light and Shadows
by Comfort Sampong | Apr 4, 2023 | Grand Rapids
What makes their art dance as a pair?
March in Six Meals
by Ansley Kelly | Apr 3, 2023 | Boston, New York, Pennsylvania
Picture a croissant but folded into a crown shape and coated with coarse sugar that carmelizes over the already crispy exterior.
Lessons and Carrels
by Christina Ribbens | Apr 2, 2023 | Grand Rapids, Virginia, Washington, D.C.
If they checked IDs, I’d never get in. But they don’t, and I wrote my paper, feeling like maybe I understood this place better than its students.
Columbo, Secondhand
by Sam Tuit | Apr 1, 2023 | Placeless
However, after the nearly six months of absorbing memes, gifsets, and posts imagining the character in modern situations, it will forever be impossible to watch The Princess Bride without acting like the Leonardo diCaprio pointing meme.
Loon Calls and Coney Dogs
by Jon Gorter | Mar 28, 2023 | Placeless
It was apparent there, as much as anywhere, that the city and the wild are not so separate.
My Life in Seven Speedways
by Annaka Koster | Mar 26, 2023 | Michigan
Introducing slushies to the two Chinese exchange students who were on set was either the best or worst thing I’ve ever done for Sino-American diplomatic relations.
Country Mouse, City Mouse
by Natasha (Strydhorst) Unsworth | Mar 25, 2023 | Placeless
Even so, I survived—more than can be said for the city mice in our apartment
Citizens of Babel: Antisociality and Dystopian Cities
by Joshua Polanski | Mar 24, 2023 | Placeless
The Tower of Babel is one of our oldest dystopias.
When Your Hometown Stops Being Home
by Mitchell Barbee | Mar 23, 2023 | Placeless
I no longer know anyone.
Somewhere Special
by Kayleigh (Fongers) Van Wyk | Mar 22, 2023 | Boyne City
While Boyne City may have the word “city” in its name, it’s quite the antithesis of an urban setting.
The Cities That Were
by Emily Joy Stroble | Mar 21, 2023 | Colorado, Washington
Ruins should horrify us—grim testaments to our permanent impermanence
Beneath the Streets
by Lillie Spackman | Mar 19, 2023 | New York
There are lots of things in cities that we don’t notice until they go wrong.
Urban Gothic
by Ben DeVries | Mar 18, 2023 | Placeless
Cities veer in the public imagination from weird and enchanted to crime-ridden and drug-addled.
What’s a City to Me?
by Laura Sheppard Song | Mar 17, 2023 | Placeless
I won’t miss the commutes.
A Cheapskate’s Sentimental Guide to Chicago
by Tiffany Kajiwara | Mar 16, 2023 | Chicago
I’d walk along the lake and listen to the birds, thinking about how strange it was that a man-made peninsula became a spot of natural beauty amongst glass skyscrapers.
Fictional Cities Where I Wouldn’t Move
by Courtney Zonnefeld | Mar 15, 2023 | Placeless
My Midwestern self would need enough help to assimilate into the real NYC, let alone one where the Woman in White might attack.
Grand Rapids in Five Songs
by Michal Rubingh | Mar 14, 2023 | Grand Rapids
Some people love it. Others feel like Grand Rapids is an inescapable vortex of Dutch bingo. Remi Wolf just helps with some comedic relief.
Lonely City
by Olivia Harre | Mar 13, 2023 | Tennessee
I can see her potted plants, and I wonder how they survive since she’s never there to water them.
