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How do You Get a Cow Across a Firth?
by Gwyneth Findlay | Feb 9, 2023 | Scotland
In one corner, it imagines a boat.
Lone Woolf
by Josh Parks | Feb 8, 2023 | Placeless
“I’ve tried this book before,” said I, “with the success of a sore-legged predator. It stings and slogs in a circus of circumlocutions.”
The Juiceman Legacy
by Susannah Boersma | Feb 7, 2023 | Michigan
I awaited the next instruction; it never came.
God Bless My Noisy Neighbors
by Hannah Riffell | Feb 6, 2023 | Placeless
I can hear their little terrier skitter across the floor or jump off the couch with an adorable thud.
Figure 1: Chronic Overcommitment Cycle
by Alex Johnson | Feb 5, 2023 | Placeless
But then your inbox stays dead. Your calendar remains open.
Phone Calls with Nathan
by Ansley Kelly | Feb 3, 2023 | Placeless
Like he says,”What’s the worst thing that could happen?”
An Ode to My Check Engine Light
by Christina Ribbens | Feb 2, 2023 | Placeless
And for a moment I thought, “Ah, maybe the car has healed itself,” before remembering that only living things can heal themselves and that my car, although I sometimes talk to it as if it were a person, is not a living thing.
Digital Ghosts
by Sam Tuit | Feb 1, 2023 | Placeless
It was a bit like walking into a friend’s home to find they’d unexpectedly moved out, leaving empty shelves, bare walls, and rooms with no furniture.
Fish Tales
by Jon Gorter | Jan 28, 2023 | Michigan
Lurking the rocky bottom, deep in the black abyss of Bear Lake, the walleye patrols his kingdom
The Final Word
by Anna Jeffries | Jan 27, 2023 | Placeless
Stop littering! Stop using hollow cardboard words!
The Five Stages of Grieving a Bad Book
by Annaka Koster | Jan 26, 2023 | Placeless
It is not uncommon for readers at this stage to lash out at others; example behaviors include a savage Twitter mention and/or telling the librarian who recommended the book that he should “seek a new career path.”
What’s With All the Pants Posts?
by Natasha (Strydhorst) Unsworth | Jan 25, 2023 | Arizona
“Grand Canyon? More like Bland Canyon.”
Thoughtful Streaming on a Budget
by Joshua Polanski | Jan 24, 2023 | Placeless
You’ll find mid-budget Dad-tier sci-fi films you forgot about, and you’ll come across Chinese war movies that you’ve never heard of; there’s something for everyone here.
My Weirdest Experiences Working in Retail
by Mitchell Barbee | Jan 23, 2023 | Michigan, Virginia
I had only seen these cookies served on Delta flights, so my first thought was wondering how she had smuggled them off the plane
On Friendship and Gratitude
by Kayleigh (Fongers) Van Wyk | Jan 22, 2023 | Placeless
For me, friendship has hardly been that simple.
23 Things that Make You an Objectively Cool Person
by Emily Joy Stroble | Jan 21, 2023 | Placeless
Discipline is cool. A fascination with violence is not.
This Old House
by Lillie Spackman | Jan 19, 2023 | Placeless
I found myself nodding along with the explanations about heat exchangers and chuckling at the jokes about battery-free plumb bobs.
Mastered by Some
by Ben DeVries | Jan 18, 2023 | Placeless
Their poems a problem to be intimidated by, and then picked apart, and then finally, exhaustingly brute-forced into yet another five-paragraph essay.
Meditating on Midnight Mass
by Laura Sheppard Song | Jan 17, 2023 | Placeless
The show is a necessary skewering of how easy it can be for an earnest Christian community to be infiltrated by something monstrous.
It Gets Better
by Tiffany Kajiwara | Jan 16, 2023 | Placeless
To my surprise, my first thought was, “Ha! Little does she know that gays walk among us.”
Tips from a Year of Museuming
by Courtney Zonnefeld | Jan 15, 2023 | Michigan, Washington, D.C.
Whenever I enter a museum, I rediscover rhythms that I haven’t used since my last trip to Adventureland for nerds.
Subjective Joy
by Michal Rubingh | Jan 14, 2023 | Placeless
But I drove home after the interviews like a little sparrow. I was excited to get my hands in the dirt of the world, gracefully or not.
Missing Christmas Magic
by Olivia Harre | Jan 13, 2023 | Tennessee
Where was the magic in saltines and Gatorade for dinner, in spiking fevers and loneliness? Where was the magic in canceled flights and missed wedding celebrations?
I Voted for Quiet Music
by Jack Kamps | Jan 12, 2023 | Virginia
We are perched side by side on an upper landing in this barn, floating in the resonant space of music we have never heard so close, have never heard unmediated, have never heard in four-part harmony.
Buckets, Biscuits, and Benders: A Hockey Skater’s Guide to Skating This Winter
by Gabrielle Eisma | Jan 11, 2023 | Placeless
You get the lumber laid on you, you get a face wash, you end up in a yard sale—you keep playing.
Starting Off “Right”
by Gwyneth Findlay | Jan 9, 2023 | Scotland
There’s no escaping a year; we’re in it for the whole, well, year.
Master of None
by Josh Parks | Jan 8, 2023 | Placeless
What if our words were less like swords (sharpened, polished) and more like textiles—equally demanding to make, but designed to warm rather than to wound?
The Children’s Autonomy Paradox
by Susannah Boersma | Jan 7, 2023 | Placeless
It asks the question: why must beautiful and capable children be constrained by the law of incompetent guardians?
Joy in One Hand & Sorrow in the Other
by Hannah Riffell | Jan 6, 2023 | Placeless
Grief docks in your life like a sail in a harbor.
Santa Hat on a Tree, Nails in the Walls
by Alex Johnson | Jan 5, 2023 | Massachusetts, Michigan
If I lived alone, my apartment would probably look destitute.
