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Joy to the World Anyway
by Ansley Kelly | Jan 3, 2023 | New York, Pennsylvania
Both spaces have shown me the need for traditions that bring us back to joy, especially when the night is dark and the howling, frigid wind finds its way through every single-paned window and every batten board of the barn.
My Childhood Bedroom: An Inventory
by Christina Ribbens | Jan 2, 2023 | Placeless
Twin bed with ancient plastic tubs holding who knows what underneath (1)
Ancient plastic tubs holding who knows what (3)
Pop COVID’s First Wave
by Sam Tuit | Jan 1, 2023 | Placeless
James Bond never would have been allowed to look like this, depressed and wallowing in his pain.
Best of 2022, Part Three: Editors’ Picks
by Annaka Koster | Dec 31, 2022 | Placeless
Most of the time, we’re just readers with admin permissions.
Best of 2022, Part Two: Writers’ Picks
by Alex Johnson | Dec 30, 2022 | Placeless
There’s a reason New Year’s Eve and New Year’s Day are holidays.
Best of 2022, Part One: Peers’ Picks
by Josh Parks | Dec 29, 2022 | Placeless
Our teachers are each other.
Internet Alphabet
by Sam Tuit | Dec 29, 2022 | Placeless
If this computer had history from my childhood, there’s no way this wouldn’t be Lego.com.
Sitting with the Darkness
by Jon Gorter | Dec 28, 2022 | Colorado
Living in the shadows of 14,000 foot peaks, the mountains offered ample lectures on living with limited light.
Thoughts on Popular Death
by Anna Jeffries | Dec 27, 2022 | Placeless
I wish we would pay death its due, despite our reality TV shows and action movies and awful country tunes.
More Festive Erotica with Your Favorite Librarian
by Annaka Koster | Dec 26, 2022 | Placeless
Fun new surprises to this volume include the worst pet name for any child, several cameos from the Michelle Love extended universe, and multiple scenes that make one go, “I can’t imagine that’s how sex clubs actually function.”
Christmas is Here
by Natasha (Strydhorst) Unsworth | Dec 25, 2022 | Placeless
It puts me in mind of Christmas in Canada: joy in enormous measure, coupled with the inescapable aches of cold
Christmas Eve, Anticipation, and Alexander Ovechkin
by Joshua Polanski | Dec 24, 2022 | Washington, D.C.
There’s something about Waldorf, Maryland that just screams “mundane!”
Why I Always Come Back to ‘Reply 1988’
by Mitchell Barbee | Dec 23, 2022 | Placeless
It seems Korea fell in love with this aspect of the show just as much as I would less than a year later.
If Christmas Letters Were Honest
by Kayleigh (Fongers) Van Wyk | Dec 22, 2022 | Placeless
Christmas letters, in essence, are highlight reels.
The Whittling
by Emily Joy Stroble | Dec 21, 2022 | Placeless
Are our true selves buried under all our stuff?
Why I Stopped Writing
by Katerina Parsons | Dec 20, 2022 | Placeless
The girl who had spent her teenage years wearing Lord of the Rings costumes to the grocery store grew more polished and careful, but then the mask started to fit a little too well.
Loved, Seen, and Cared For
by Lillie Spackman | Dec 19, 2022 | Vermont
Not everyone is everything to everybody.
Siri Goes to School
by Ben DeVries | Dec 18, 2022 | Placeless
ChatGPT can compose serviceable feminist criticism, of the kind I’d expect to receive from my first-year undergrads.
Singing Christmas
by Laura Sheppard Song | Dec 17, 2022 | Placeless
Sure, hitting the high note in “O Holy Night” by yourself is an accomplishment. But belting the high note in Handel’s Messiah in a hundredfold choir is true musical ecstasy.
Fleas Almost Defeated Me
by Tiffany Kajiwara | Dec 16, 2022 | Placeless
Idiots. They had stealth, but I had Google search.
Light
by Courtney Zonnefeld | Dec 15, 2022 | Placeless
The older I become, the more I am convinced that Christmas is about abundance that looks like scarcity.
The Approval Request Form: An Inquiry
by Michal Rubingh | Dec 14, 2022 | Placeless
Think of all the catastrophes you could solve for your favorite TV show characters by simply inserting an approval request form
Errand Friends
by Olivia Harre | Dec 13, 2022 | Placeless
The beginning of friendships can feel so formal. And it should be, at least a little bit.
Thirteen Haikus That Will Answer All Your Questions About the 2022 Men’s World Cup
by Jack Kamps | Dec 12, 2022 | Placeless
I was unaware
taking off your shirt in this
means a yellow card.
Duck Neighbors
by Gabrielle Eisma | Dec 11, 2022 | Placeless
I miss who murdered Mrs. McGinty. But I don’t miss my neighbor duck watching me all the way up the rest of the hill and back to my house.
Five Fantastic Games I Played This Year
by Philip Rienstra | Dec 10, 2022 | Placeless
Like Stardew Valley, it has you running a little farm next to a shoddy cabin in a small town—except, the main thing you’re growing on your farm is the little creatures.
Swings and Roundabouts
by Gwyneth Findlay | Dec 9, 2022 | Canada, Michigan, Scotland
Vowel merges have led multiple people to mistake my tale about seeing the ferry with spotting a fairy or my ponderings about Frodo and Merry as Frodo and Mary.
Why Do We Keep Watching Hallmark Movies?
by Susannah Boersma | Dec 7, 2022 | Placeless
Wouldn’t it be much easier to suffer amnesia and be nursed back to health by a rugged lumberjack?
A Runner’s Testimony
by Hannah Riffell | Dec 6, 2022 | Placeless
It finally dawned on me that if I didn’t look like Tina Turner by now, it was probably not going to happen ever.
Variations on Messiah
by Alex Johnson | Dec 5, 2022 | Placeless
But the Mystery of Love prevailed: God did not say Goodbye or Who Are You but Hey Ya; no Ghost Rule, but God crowned Jesus Lord of the Castle.
