Monthly Archives: October 2018
by Laurel Ackerman | Oct 31, 2018
Then MOses set OUT with JOSHua his AIDE. And MOses went UP the MOUNtain of GOD.
by Bethany Cooper | Oct 31, 2018
If you’re looking for a redemptive ending, I don’t have one.
by Kathryn Mae Post | Oct 30, 2018
As a white person, it’s easy for me to assume that my way of viewing the world is normal. And not just normal, but best. That my way of talking is best. That my way of keeping time is best. That my way of doing church is best.
by Comfort Sampong | Oct 30, 2018
I will battle against my own impatience and distrust as I remember that people are not exchangeable puzzle pieces.
by Kyric Koning | Oct 29, 2018
“We should totally hang out.”
The lie comes easily. Situations such as this feel like they require politeness and kindness more than truth.
by Matt Coldagelli | Oct 28, 2018
The man: “Wow, how great. Now you be sure to take super special care of that beautiful baby. What’s her name?”
by Nick Meekhof | Oct 26, 2018
That’s one thing that sucks about winter camping. There’s nothing to do after it gets dark, except drink beer and stare at the fire.
by Katie Van Zanen | Oct 25, 2018
B: I think that it might be important to take a minute and savor the fact that you no longer actively think you’re terrible
by Jeffrey Peterson | Oct 24, 2018
E: Ik heb een zwemdiploma maar als ik in jou ogen kijk verdrink ik.
J: Uh? Sorry, one more time? I want to make sure the readers get this.
by Julia LaPlaca | Oct 23, 2018
The eternal shades of nightly gloom, which had so recently entwined my soul like a noose, loosened their chokehold and seemed to float away, ethereal bonds dissipating like specks of dust caught in a sunbeam.
by Sadie Burgher | Oct 22, 2018
ANGELICA
(continues in the gravelly voice)
WIPE your tears, princess, we’re gonna serenada you. ANITUS!
by Emily Joy Stroble | Oct 21, 2018
Free-Spirit Emily: (Scrolling through Anthropologie’s still impossibly expensive “sale” category) Oh believe me, you can. Remember the computer we never updated? We had it for years.
by Gabe Gunnink | Oct 20, 2018
Now, if you’ll sit over here, I’m just going to take your anxiety. You’re going to feel some tightness. That’s normal. Okay?
Okay.
by Mary Margaret Healy | Oct 19, 2018
Isn’t Kelsey on the party planning committee or whatever? I feel like she’s too much of a Try-Hard to pass up something like that. I hope she remembers I’m gluten free so I can eat something other than a fruit cup this year.
by Ben DeVries | Oct 18, 2018
“I think the water’s boiling, Jes.”
“Can you get that?”
“Caffeine or decaf?”
by Tony Ditta | Oct 17, 2018
A while ago a few friends and I took a class that turned out to be much easier than expected. We spent most of the class time electronically messaging.
by Andrew Knot | Oct 16, 2018
“And then of course you wonder if taking your wife to this show as the right thing to do, or if maybe you would have been better off going to dinner and having a conversation, even a monologue, as I suppose this has become.”
by Courtney Zonnefeld | Oct 15, 2018
Teach me the quiet virtue of janitors and night stockers. Of saints who wake and sleep and live—and that is enough.
by Will Montei | Oct 14, 2018
“WE ARE ON A WALK. WE ARE OUT FOR A FREAKING STROLL.”
by Olivia Harre | Oct 13, 2018
“I’m actually on a connecting flight, traveling to a corn hole tournament. It’s a pretty big deal,” the man in the seat behind me announced.
by Abby Zwart | Oct 12, 2018
ALCOTT: Oh gosh, well I’m just awfully glad that that we’re all here together. I do so wish we could all get along.
by Matt Cambridge | Oct 11, 2018
KEVIN stares at MATT with zero intention of voluntarily getting back in the crate. MATT gets small treat and tosses it in the crate. KEVIN obliges.
by Jenna Griffin | Oct 10, 2018
“I’ve forgotten how to hold a prayer. If I ever really knew how… there are different ways of speaking to God, of hearing his voice.”
by Gwyneth Findlay | Oct 9, 2018
I told you to stop looking at the news.
I tried. I can’t. I keep going back. Why don’t they believe survivors?
by Josh Parks | Oct 8, 2018
“I do not think that I will ever reach a stage when I will say, ’This is what I believe. Finished.’ What I believe is alive … and open to growth.” (Madeleine L’Engle)
by Josh deLacy | Oct 6, 2018
“Meeting you was a divine encounter. I’m living on trust, too.” Jacob grinned, as if my existence validated his life.
by India Daniels | Oct 5, 2018
We speak to get outside of our own heads. I don’t think it particularly matters if you don’t always have an audience.
by Caitlin Gent | Oct 4, 2018
“I feel like I’m going to listen to this and it’s just going to be a bunch of my disgusting chewing noises.”
