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Open Letter to the Squirrel Who Dug Up My Garden
by Carlisle Patete | Apr 17, 2026 | Placeless
No worries!
Coral Reefs of the Forest
by Nathan Hilbrands | Apr 16, 2026 | Placeless
If you can still focus through the cacophony of frog calls and you look closely in the pool, you may find salamander egg masses.
Take Back the Mic
by Clint Wilson | Apr 15, 2026 | Placeless
When government spending can be controlled so easily by private interests, what’s stopping those in power from siphoning money from the poorest?
Questions Inspired by Working with Pandemic Kindergartners
by Noah Keene | Apr 14, 2026 | Placeless
I hedged my bets that the curriculum decision-makers are some species of otherworldly creature with only vague understanding of human affairs.
Walking with Sam
by Olivia Harre | Apr 13, 2026 | Placeless
Due to the startling lack of sheep in suburban Nashville, he is forced to get creative with his herding talents.
What Does It Mean?
by Liana Hirner | Apr 12, 2026 | Placeless
It’s disorienting, how you can feel relieved one day and utterly defeated a week later.
Of Gift Horses and Thumbs
by Eleanor Lee | Apr 11, 2026 | Placeless
I baptize my dishes with Aldi Power Force soap and elbow grease; they rise spotless and ready for a new life back in the cupboard.
Gamecycling
by Philip Rienstra | Apr 10, 2026 | Placeless
Half the time, it’s the older games that drag me away from the new ones.
What the Heck is Vulnerability?
by Michelle Ferdinands | Apr 9, 2026 | Placeless
It’s become an aesthetic.
The Little Match Girl: An Atonement Theory
by Josh Parks | Apr 8, 2026 | Placeless
But there’s no escaping the story’s deep sorrow, the feeble light of a match against winter, against poverty, against human indifference and cruelty.
The Ministry of Utmost Happiness
by Kate Wilmot | Apr 7, 2026 | India
In many ways, even just this year, the yolk feels like it is running.
Why on Earth is Smut Being Normalized, Though?
by Emilyn Shortridge | Apr 6, 2026 | Placeless
But in the plainest terms, unintended porn addiction is the dead last place where I want to pursue equality.
A Sick Day
by Grace Buller | Apr 4, 2026 | Placeless
For most of the following day, you will alternate between dozing off and scrolling Wikipedia—its mostly black-and-white interface far less obnoxious than that of Instagram.
In the Waiting, I Sing
by Madeline Witvliet | Apr 3, 2026 | Grand Rapids
That’s why stories hit children so hard.
Romanticizing My Commute
by Christina Ribbens | Apr 2, 2026 | Washington, D.C.
I’ll take that over driving in DC traffic every time.
March Was a Lot
by Sam Tuit | Apr 1, 2026 | Placeless
It comes earlier in the scene than you expect, and is devastating in its simplicity.
I Was Wrong About My Mom
by Julia McKee | Mar 29, 2026 | Placeless
My heart still yearns for Caribou runs and dressing room dates.
I Was Wrong About Living Alone
by Izzy Nunez | Mar 28, 2026 | Placeless
I missed sharing a gallon of oat milk—because who really goes through a whole gallon of alternative milk alone?
I Was Wrong About My Spouse
by Anna Jeffries | Mar 27, 2026 | Placeless
I always joke with people that I was never really plugged in enough to find myself in the firing line of all the classic Christian dogma taught to children.
I Was Wrong About ****
by Annaka Koster | Mar 26, 2026 | Placeless
How can we be expected to take a topic seriously when it is being referred to in the internet’s version of rhyming slang?
I Was Wrong About Success
by Sam Koster | Mar 25, 2026 | Placeless
I cannot shame myself into being better.
I Met My Celebrity Crush
by Sophia Medawar | Mar 24, 2026 | Placeless
And I think I blacked out.
I Was Wrong About ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’
by Savannah Shustack | Mar 22, 2026 | Placeless
How dare she strawman my faith?
I Was Wrong About Art
by Rylan Shewmaker | Mar 20, 2026 | Placeless
Art, I found, could be revolutionary.
I Was Wrong About Asking Questions
by Luke Brandsen | Mar 19, 2026 | Placeless
a consistent thread runs through the messy tapestry of my insecure wonderings.
I Was Wrong About Baseball
by Priscilla Chang | Mar 18, 2026 | Placeless
Baseball revolves around the idea of failure. Batters are struck out left and right.
I Was Wrong About the Pill
by Carlisle Patete | Mar 17, 2026 | Placeless
The language around birth control these days seems as if it has been designed to deter young women from the medicine that liberated our mothers and grandmothers.
I Was Wrong About the Winter Olympics
by Nathan Hilbrands | Mar 16, 2026 | Placeless
Two weeks of flag waving and national anthem singing didn’t sound very enjoyable.
I Was Wrong About Smut
by Clint Wilson | Mar 15, 2026 | Placeless
Weaponizing the literary preferences of some women against other women may just be the latest in a long line of clever ways to keep the historic power dynamic between genders in place.
I Was Wrong About Being Introverted
by Noah Keene | Mar 14, 2026 | Placeless
Katie, John the Baptist, Caleb, Destiny, Emily, and Cailynn are all in engineering. I should probably let them know I have aspirin and a stress ball in my room if they need it.
