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My Wife is a Saint; Or, A Review of The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild
by Ben DeVries | Mar 18, 2017 | Placeless
But as much as this story would insist that Link is the star of this latest quest, the real star of the show isn’t a person at all. It’s Hyrule itself.
This Land Is My Land
by Geneva Langeland | Mar 17, 2017 | Washington, D.C.
Two weeks ago, I revisited the City of Magnificent Intentions.
Crossing German streets
by Andrew Knot | Mar 16, 2017 | Cologne, Cologne, Germany
Life as an expat can be categorized according to two phenomena: experiences that reinforce the expat’s sense of belonging to her heritage and experiences that point to a shift in identity.
Why Karaoke Is Oddly Empowering
by Cassie Westrate | Mar 15, 2017 | Placeless
Confidence is less like a characteristic trait for me and more like a fluid scale influenced by several external variables that I have a bad habit of internalizing.
The Men I’ve Loved
by Will Montei | Mar 14, 2017 | Placeless
We would say it without worrying about whether or not it came off to anyone within earshot as romantic. As you say it to your family, so we said it to each other.
Last Sunday
by Catherine Kramer | Mar 13, 2017 | New York
As soon as we walked into West Park Presbyterian Church, we were already in the wrong place.
The Other Side Again
by Abby Zwart | Mar 12, 2017 | Michigan
And so here I am, standing still in the eye of a hurricane, the confluence of these memories, documents, and moments of déjà vu swirling every which way.
Bad Apples
by Elaine Schnabel | Mar 11, 2017 | Placeless
Unfortunately, while one “bad” student—disruptive, selfish, rude—could derail an entire semester for an entire class, the opposite is not true.
City Stories: Life on the Road
by Katie Van Zanen | Mar 10, 2017 | Massachusetts, New York
Stories of travel compel us, she says, because “more reliably than anything else on earth, the road will force you to live in the present.”
Self Deprecation Man
by Bart Tocci | Mar 9, 2017 | Placeless
“I suck at math.” “I’m bad at writing.” “Nobody likes me.” “People don’t get my jokes.” Stop it.
The Theater of Protest
by Paul Menn | Mar 8, 2017 | Wisconsin
Their shouts of “white power!” were countered by our shouts of “Nazi pigs have got to go!” At the end of the day, nothing really happene
I Read Fun Home in New Orleans
by Caroline (Higgins) Nyczak | Mar 7, 2017 | Louisiana
I examine the photos of us together on my phone. “I look like a cartoon character and you look like a Dominatrix. I’d say these fit our personalities pretty well!”
Toxic Masculinity
by Josh deLacy | Mar 6, 2017 | Placeless
In urban, educated America, masculinity is fashionable only with a veneer of irony.
Butt Dust
by Alissa Anderson | Mar 5, 2017 | Placeless
…while remembering that we are dust is meant to be striking and a bit uncomfortable, I’m confident that no one wants to remember being “butt dust.”
The Food Struggle
by Ben Rietema | Mar 4, 2017 | Placeless
No one remembers to send okra a Christmas card, and they usually misspell “okra” anyways. Ocra? Akra? Okrah? Occasionally, someone visits her when they go south for spring break.
If That’s What Writers Are, I’m Not One
by Meg Schmidt | Mar 3, 2017 | Placeless
But so often the story would rise up and out of me, and I couldn’t find it again. And I wouldn’t really try.
Deaconing
by Jacob Schepers | Mar 2, 2017 | Placeless
I’m stepping into church council. Humility knows no bounds. What can I reciprocate? I grovel, lying prostrate, prone.
Moving Day
by Katerina Parsons | Mar 1, 2017 | Placeless
A fan. A spatula. Thirty soft-cover books. A pile of dresses. Yarn. A bottle of balsamic vinegar.
Help Is a Four-Letter Word
by Bekah (Williamson) Medendorp | Feb 28, 2017 | Hungary
I scour the wall for any ledges, any possible edge to rest a hand or foot. Nothing. The drop to the next balcony I would guess is eight feet. Not impossible.
Christian History
by Brad Zwiers | Feb 27, 2017 | Placeless
We danced on moonlight and settled scores by imagining things differently.
Maybe I Should Care More
by Nick Meekhof | Feb 26, 2017 | Michigan
On Thursday, February 16, production came to a grinding halt at the greenhouse because most of my coworkers took a personal day for the nationwide protest, “A Day Without Immigrants.”
The Unraveling of Truth
by Jack VA | Feb 25, 2017 | Placeless
The difficult task we’ve all received is—like Vonnegut—seeking the slippery truth buried in muddiness and mess.
Wunderkammer!
by Julia LaPlaca | Feb 23, 2017 | Canada, Chicago, Hungary, Poland
Nowhere else in this big wide world of ours can you find a life-size Michael Jackson and Princess Diana made entirely out of marzipan.
Portuguesa (To My Wife)
by Matt Medendorp | Feb 22, 2017 | Portugal
Fifty seconds of the wind whipping, a few tires screeching, nothing more, nothing more needed. Two days of slipping up the coast, of stinging sand, of white adobe buildings.
Postcards from Queer Camp
by Gabe Gunnink | Feb 20, 2017 | Washington
There’s nothing like bustling down the baking needs aisle with a week’s supply of Oreos yelling out for “Anthill!” to make you realize you’re not currently leading a traditional life.
How Their Stories Became Mine
by Mary Margaret Healy | Feb 19, 2017 | Chicago, Missouri
The US eventually emerged from The Great Depression, but my grandmother did not.
The Nineteen
by Ben DeVries | Feb 18, 2017 | Virginia
The number nineteen appears with such frequency in this deposition, it begins to feel rehearsed.
Waffle Monday
by Geneva Langeland | Feb 17, 2017 | Grand Rapids
And I’m in Ann Arbor, dreaming of waffles.
How to Escape
by Andrew Knot | Feb 16, 2017 | Chicago
Where had he been when? What happened on the way? Why was he there? How did he die? The answers were dispersed on these 28 square feet. We needed them to get out.
… and now I’m the “Crazy Bird Lady”
by Cassie Westrate | Feb 15, 2017 | Placeless
I have a significant other. His name is JJ, and he’s a bird.
