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Panem et Circuses
by Kate Wilmot | Jun 7, 2025 | Placeless
Is there a show that starts with twenty-four-plus contestants that are whittled down to half by the end of the first night?
Metal for Disney Adults
by Alex Johnson | Jun 5, 2025 | Placeless
Sorry commenters, sometimes Vessel does sound like the emo kid who wrote poetry in high school.
The Concession Conundrum
by Kipp De Man | Jun 4, 2025 | Grand Rapids
But what this anecdote reveals to me upon reflection is not the gleeful victory of one consumer against the upcharging corporate hegemon nor a testament to my sleight of hand.
The Sacrament of Reconciliation
by Ansley Kelly | Jun 3, 2025 | Placeless
I see that conflict is most wholly resolved when we are moved by the pain reflected in the person before us.
What I Didn’t Tell You I Got For Christmas
by Christina Ribbens | Jun 2, 2025 | Placeless
“It’s sort of a parody of those angry, serious 20th writers and the people who revere them. ‘Am I a fan of that genre?’ No, can’t say that I am. But I think it’ll be funny?”
Six Little Letters
by Sam Tuit | Jun 1, 2025 | Placeless
The word is a slur, certainly, but what word describing Queer folks isn’t?
Call For Audition Submissions
by Alex Johnson | May 31, 2025 | Placeless
Are you interested in joining the post calvin community? We have openings for new writers beginning this August, and we’d love to hear from you!
Animal People
by Annaka Koster | May 26, 2025 | Placeless
I’m sure your dog is great, but I probably don’t care about your dog unless I care about you.
My Life as Told by Shayfer James and His Strange Ability to Read my Mind
by Sam Koster | May 25, 2025 | Placeless
The two times I saw Shayfer live this year, he played “God Forbids,” and both times I got held by friends while I cried.
The Time ‘The Lion King’ Saved My Uterus
by Sophia Medawar | May 24, 2025 | Placeless
The answer is “yes,” Sir Elton John. I could feel the love that night.
Nostalgia, But for What?
by Mitchell Barbee | May 23, 2025 | North Carolina
It’s hard to deny there’s something that I miss, even if it doesn’t make sense to me.
Promises
by Savannah Shustack | May 22, 2025 | Iceland
I remembered my baptism when I dipped my hand in the frigid blue water of a glacier, when I felt mist clinging to my face and dampening my clothes, when I watched the graceful, floating powdered sugar descent—deceptively powerful—of waterfall after waterfall after waterfall.
A Lament for Southwest Airlines
by Emily Joy Stroble | May 21, 2025 | Placeless
Southwest assumed the best of its passengers and treated them like smart, capable people. And we rose to the occasion.
Contra Time-Space Compression
by Rylan Shewmaker | May 20, 2025 | Spain
I’m obsessed with the context that traveling by land brings to my destination, in a similar way that visiting a friend in their hometown is such a joy.
They Will Run and Not Grow Weary, They Will Bask and Not Grow Superstitious
by Hannah McNulty | May 19, 2025 | Placeless
I wrote a play, how cool is that?
Attending My Ex-Boyfriend’s Wedding
by Carlisle Patete | May 17, 2025 | Placeless
They drove off to their honeymoon in the same car he used to drive in college.
Is there a god of Cars?
by Tiffany Kajiwara | May 16, 2025 | Placeless
God the Creator, Mitsubishi the Manufacturer.
On Buying a Chair
by Noah Schumerth | May 15, 2025 | Chicago
I lie and say that I’ve bought chairs and they’ll take a while to ship. The dust settles in my cart again.
Gen L
by Noah Keene | May 14, 2025 | Placeless
There’s some aspect of being human, some primal need for face-to-face connection and physical contact that no amount of DMing, texting, or phone calls can fill.
Let the Confetti Fall
by Olivia Harre | May 13, 2025 | Placeless
Not even twenty four hours after the moment, thoughts of all the next steps had already derailed my joy.
Is The New Pope a Cubs or White Sox Fan? And Other Burning Questions
by Liana Hirner | May 12, 2025 | Placeless
Knowing that a man who’s well on his way to becoming a household name internationally loves the same baseball team as you has to be a good feeling.
Negative Buoyancy
by Gabrielle Eisma | May 11, 2025 | Placeless
The pet clinics around me don’t even have veterinarians on staff that work with fish.
Five Games that I Somehow Still Haven’t Played
by Philip Rienstra | May 10, 2025 | Placeless
There are simply too many games to play, and they just keep making them!
Ode to Spring
by Kate Wilmot | May 7, 2025 | Placeless
The winter was long. It was bitter this year. Wasn’t it?
Eating Humble Pie
by Alex Johnson | May 5, 2025 | Detroit
Call it shedding my “a pleasure to have in class” skin.
Thunderbolts* (2025): A Strangely Tender Return to Competence
by Kipp De Man | May 4, 2025 | Placeless
What Thunderbolts* represents is faith rewarded, a return (even briefly) to a tradition of blockbuster competence that seemed lost to a proliferation of nightmarishly digital and dumbly unfunny slop.
What Does a Good Day Look Like?
by Ansley Kelly | May 3, 2025 | Placeless
Too often we are asking the wrong question.
Ten Years On
by Sam Tuit | May 1, 2025 | Michigan
The room was eerily quiet as the students sat waiting for me to get ready, so I tried to lighten the mood. They all take this so seriously, too seriously.
Research Offered Me a Future
by Izzy Nunez | Apr 28, 2025 | Placeless
My birth story is one that my mom shares every year —she saw Lorelai do it in a Gilmore Girls episode.
Rebelling (or: Feelings Don’t Care About Facts)
by Anna Jeffries | Apr 27, 2025 | Placeless
Progressive politics have lost their narrative voice.
