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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.
I Was Wrong About Small Weddings
by Olivia Harre | Mar 13, 2026 | Placeless
Our people trekked from thirteen different states to sit in the wooden pews for that exact moment.
I Was Wrong About Heated Rivalry
by Liana Hirner | Mar 12, 2026 | Placeless
It looked like a low budget Wattpad-esque romance.
I Was Wrong About Card Games
by Eleanor Lee | Mar 11, 2026 | Placeless
Please, please do not ask me to play Taco Cat Goat Cheese Pizza. I don’t care what the cat or the goat or the pizza is doing.
I Was Wrong About Taylor Swift, Again
by Philip Rienstra | Mar 10, 2026 | Placeless
After a sequence of repeated failures, I’m now forced to consider the possibility that she is really, genuinely out of touch.
I Was Wrong About Valuing Freedom
by Michelle Ferdinands | Mar 9, 2026 | Sri Lanka
It wasn’t about the rules.
I Was Wrong About Birthdays
by Kate Wilmot | Mar 7, 2026 | Placeless
But something changed for me when my sister and I found a string of polka-dot bunting in a HEMA in France a little over a year ago.
I Was Wrong About Late Nights
by Emilyn Shortridge | Mar 6, 2026 | Japan, Placeless
Sleeping in feels more like some sort of sin.
I Was Wrong About Transness
by Alex Johnson | Mar 5, 2026 | Placeless
Similar to my experiences with the rest of the LGBTQ+ community, I didn’t really know that trans people existed for a long time.
I Was Wrong About Penance
by Grace Buller | Mar 4, 2026 | Placeless
Did I still want to be a journalist? Did I want to go into publishing? Did I want to go to grad school? If so, what for? History? Special education? Languages and literature? Some other field?
I Was Wrong About My Snake Plant
by Madeline Witvliet | Mar 3, 2026 | Michigan
Marla was making her way in the world.
I Was Wrong About Going to Waffle House on Valentine’s Day
by Christina Ribbens | Mar 2, 2026 | Placeless
I respect what mascots do from a distance but I do not want to be caught in their frozen, unblinking gaze, thank you very much.
I Was Wrong About Universes Beyond
by Sam Tuit | Mar 1, 2026 | Placeless
It would be weird if a LotR Magic set didn’t feature The One Ring in some way, and disappointing if it wasn’t a powerful card.
