Monthly Archives: October 2019
by Ben DeVries | Oct 18, 2019 |
An unexpected call, just before the exam starts. A worried glance down at a phone, a quick “excuse me.”
by Laura Sheppard | Oct 17, 2019 |
Love never cancels. But where there are conservative and progressive platforms, they will cease; where there are vigorous debates, they will be quieted; where there is a think piece, it will pass away.
by Kyric Koning | Oct 16, 2019 |
I write because someone once said, “Only two jobs can speak for the dead: detectives and writers.”
by Courtney Zonnefeld | Oct 15, 2019 |
When we cannot speak to God, cannot even say the barest “I love you,” we are carried.
by Olivia Harre | Oct 13, 2019 |
Thirteen years later, I realize I made a bad trade. Mom, you were right. No one is surprised.
by Abby Zwart | Oct 12, 2019 |
There’s more than meets the eye
Invisible to the naked eye
I can do that with my eyes closed
by Jordan Petersen Kamp | Oct 10, 2019 |
You didn’t have to know Bennington’s pain first hand to understand a Linkin Park song.
by Gwyneth Findlay | Oct 9, 2019 |
It’s a tricky balance, the nostalgia and passion of the past against these grim truths that have always existed.
by Josh Parks | Oct 8, 2019 |
Borges describes a fictional language that completely lacks nouns, and I tried to work out what this might mean in practice.
by Josh deLacy | Oct 6, 2019 |
I’ve peed behind dumpsters, on beaches, in alleys, gardens, parking lots, yards—and yet I was here, in this bathroom, I-can-pee-anywhere-ing in a space created for people who can’t.
by Alex Johnson | Oct 5, 2019 |
I’ve been trying to reframe my perspective by picturing the internet as an attic—one that is full to the brim with all the stuff you couldn’t bear to throw away.
by Comfort Sampong | Oct 4, 2019 |
“No, you need to take a right where the soups are. The soups on the boulevard. You know what I’m talking about, right? Because I’m not sure I know what I’m talking about.”
by Ansley Kelly | Oct 3, 2019 |
I learned that home is a team sport.
by Cotter Koopman | Oct 2, 2019 |
Just a few examples of artists getting playful with neat possibilities afforded by music’s digital presentation.
by Katerina Parsons | Oct 1, 2019 |
The third time in a short conversation that I heard myself saying, “Well, in Honduras…” I stopped myself. I didn’t mean to be a bore; I simply didn’t have other experiences to draw from.
