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by Chad Westra | Aug 20, 2021 | Seattle
My Panera coffee subscription is practically worthless now—this is Starbucks territory.
Psychosomatic Me
by Lillie Spackman | Aug 19, 2021 | Placeless
My physical and emotional being are inextricably intertwined, and that’s a good thing.
The Ones Who Sit and Fret
by Ben DeVries | Aug 18, 2021 | Placeless
Inertia doesn’t require much, after all. It never does.
Writing Happy
by Laura Sheppard Song | Aug 17, 2021 | Canada
Contentment has been slowly blooming for me this summer.
Running Is Always a Metaphor
by Katie Van Zanen | Aug 16, 2021 | Michigan
I am managing internal and external chaos by running until I’m really, really tired.
Writing Is
by Courtney Zonnefeld | Aug 15, 2021 | Placeless
Reading others’ work and wondering if you could write between the gaps of their legacies.
The Week of the House Husband
by Finnely King-Scoular | Aug 14, 2021 | Placeless
All these things are as small as a whisper yet feel as nourishing as a full breath of spring air.
Travel Pain
by Olivia Harre | Aug 13, 2021 | Michigan
We all settled in for work from “home” days together (it’s a corporate girl summer after all).
On Summer Baseball
by Klaas Walhout | Aug 12, 2021 | Maryland, Michigan
The pace of the game, a deterrent to some, feels to me like the perfect match for a slow summer night.
This is the Way the World Ends
by Lauren Cole | Aug 11, 2021 | Michigan
The muskrats giving glimpses of their heads before diving back underwater—all that I was seeing was so very fragile.
I Was Wrong About Taylor Swift
by Philip Rienstra | Aug 10, 2021 | Placeless
No, I have not heard the new song by The Weeknd and I don’t plan to, because I’m different.
Waking Nightmare
by Gwyneth Findlay | Aug 9, 2021 | Placeless
No one ever saved me; no one ever knew I needed saving.
Forgive Us
by Josh Parks | Aug 8, 2021 | Placeless
And often I decide that these excuses are all stupid and that I’m failing the world and God by not taking more drastic action.
Real Life Significance of Rain
by Susannah Boersma | Aug 7, 2021 | Michigan
I stood with a clump of counselors somewhere around midnight, watching the torrential downpour jarred by flashes of light.
(Not) The Romance I Was Looking For
by Alex Johnson | Aug 5, 2021 | Maine
I chalked it up to my self-control, which crumbles under the doldrums of summer—I could no longer resist the siren call of romance novels.
Songs for Liberation
by Comfort Sampong | Aug 4, 2021 | Honduras
I knew that each page contained not only a tune, but also a message about who we were and who we ought to be—often pious and self-assured.
Lease on Life
by Ansley Kelly | Aug 3, 2021 | New York
I couldn’t remember what it felt like to have something left at the end of the day.
I’ll Just Be in the Other Room, Fainting
by Christina Ribbens | Aug 2, 2021 | Ann Arbor
What were they going to do, take me to urgent care to hear, “Mmm sorry, it’s broken but also…it’s a toe?”
Crochet, Math, and Things We Can’t Solve
by Juliana Knot | Aug 1, 2021 | South Dakota
But crochet and quilting are done first by women and then through math, so we don’t talk much about the latter.
The Eighth-Life Crisis
by Parker Yeo | Jul 31, 2021 | Placeless
At age ten, my peace was disturbed.
Back to the Beginning
by Ben DeKryger | Jul 29, 2021 | Placeless
Rarely do endings directly incite their beholders to go back and relive what they loved.
Contemplating the Bowl Turtle
by Jon Gorter | Jul 28, 2021 | Placeless
It is a frequent casualty claimed by the trail.
Shorting Creative Outlets
by Anna Jeffries | Jul 27, 2021 | Placeless
I don’t want to believe that this is going to be adulthood forever, a thick haze of inertia.
Worse Angels
by Annaka Koster | Jul 26, 2021 | Michigan
You are suddenly and acutely aware that when you die and go to hell, this is what awaits you.
Dividing Lines
by Katie Van Zanen | Jul 25, 2021 | Placeless
It must explain everything or it explains nothing.
My Calvin Degree, One Year Later
by Joshua Polanski | Jul 24, 2021 | Boston
As my peers panicked over the midterms, I instead found myself concerned with my lack of concern.
God’s People?
by Alex Westenbroek | Jul 23, 2021 | Placeless
Your insides are looking at their outsides.
Confessions of a Coffee Avoider
by Kayleigh (Fongers) Van Wyk | Jul 22, 2021 | Placeless
With some anxious anticipation, I took a sip—and was naturally met with disappointment.
God and the Wild West
by Emily Joy Stroble | Jul 21, 2021 | Colorado
Many wounds are bound with blessing.
Flooded Thoughts
by Chad Westra | Jul 20, 2021 | Dearborn
It’s all becoming a horrible kind of natural disaster déjà vu
