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Remembrance of a Dirty Childhood

by Clint Wilson | Nov 15, 2025 | Colorado

I had forgotten land existed beyond the concrete.

Ten Stephen King Books and What I Thought of Them III: The Bachman Lands

by Noah Keene | Nov 14, 2025 | Placeless

Photo Credit Reader beware, I’m about to talk about scares. (And with the right title: it’s “What I Thought of Them,” Me from Last Fall. You mistyped your own title, you git!) Ahem. As always, I (the post calvin’s self-appointed Stephen King scholar) spun a randomizer...

Struggle to Heal

by Olivia Harre | Nov 13, 2025 | Placeless

Fifteen years into this struggle, and it’s difficult not to be discouraged that nothing is different.

My Complicated History with Mice

by Liana Hirner | Nov 12, 2025 | Grand Rapids

I would be lying if I said I hadn’t been hoping that Cora, the mousetrap queen, would be able to take care of this.

Walking in Place

by Eleanor Lee | Nov 11, 2025 | Placeless

I wonder if driving isn’t transportation’s equivalent of scrolling: too much input, too quick to remember more than a fraction of it.

The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald

by Philip Rienstra | Nov 10, 2025 | Michigan

At around 7:10 p.m., the Anderson asked how the Fitzgerald was doing, to which Captain McSorley responded: “We are holding our own.” That was the last communication heard from the ship.

Five Michelle Recommended Books

by Michelle Ferdinands | Nov 9, 2025 | Placeless

It’s not an exaggeration to say this book changed my life.

I grump

by Kate Wilmot | Nov 7, 2025 | Placeless

But I frown and sigh all the way to the car, down the highway, and into the parking lot.

To All the Boys I’ve Rejected Before

by Emilyn Shortridge | Nov 6, 2025 | Placeless

The whole thing was awkward, really.

Give Me Your Weary

by Alex Johnson | Nov 5, 2025 | Placeless

If someone isn’t tired, who are they? Can they stand up?

The Hitchhikers

by Grace Buller | Nov 4, 2025 | Placeless

When I returned, snails lurked in every corner.

sit for moment

by Madeline Witvliet | Nov 3, 2025 | Placeless

“I don’t have my keys,” I told Luke.

Crucially, Non-Cancerous (Part III)

by Christina Ribbens | Nov 2, 2025 | Placeless

I started tearing up as I agreed to the epidural and signed the paperwork.

The Most Serious Business

by Sam Tuit | Nov 1, 2025 | Placeless

It’s fun to imagine a conversation with myself from high school. There are things that would surprise him, and some that wouldn’t faze him, but one thing I know would make him jump up and down in the air with excitement: I’ve been podcasting about Homestuck for the...

Collective Joy at the State Fair

by Izzy Nunez | Oct 28, 2025 | North Carolina

I always have a healthy fear of fish cooked in a truck, but this was a revelation.

City on a Hill

by Anna Jeffries | Oct 27, 2025 | Washington, D.C.

D.C. is the only capital of a democratic country with no voting representation in the national legislature.

What the Mountain Is

by Annaka Koster | Oct 26, 2025 | New Mexico

Our mountains are mountains in the way that a teacup pig is livestock.

Illinois: Land of Abe Lincoln, the Vampire Hunter

by Sam Koster | Oct 25, 2025 | Illinois

What studio would take that kind of risk on a title that so clearly sounds like a joke?

I Lost My Words in Washington

by Sophia Medawar | Oct 24, 2025 | Washington

There’s something so thrilling about unbuckling your seatbelt and saying, “I don’t know!”

Memories of Mosquitoes and Maine

by Savannah Shustack | Oct 22, 2025 | Maine

I’ve never been lost, alone, on a mountain in Maine. My dad prepared me too well for that.

Co-lore-ado

by Emily Joy Stroble | Oct 21, 2025 | Colorado

It’s all in how you tell the story.

Sentimental Value

by Rylan Shewmaker | Oct 20, 2025 | Placeless

From the solace of our home, I got to reconfigure my relationship with my hometown and with my family.

Where Art Thou, Romeo?

by Luke Brandsen | Oct 19, 2025 | Alaska

What prompted a wolf, a classic archetype for the untamed and wild, to freely give his trust to a group of creatures he had no prior relationship with?