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My Alt-Right YouTube Debut

by Annaka Koster | Apr 26, 2024 | Placeless

The Bible says to love your enemies, but we are not your enemies. We’re your content, and the Bible doesn’t say anything about that.

Finally Ph(inishe)D

by Natasha (Strydhorst) Unsworth | Apr 25, 2024 | Canada

I’d done a virtual run through of the presentation (so called, I like to think, because it’s the part of the process that most feels like being run through with a sword)

Thoughts on Public Transit While on Amtrak

by Mitchell Barbee | Apr 23, 2024 | Grand Rapids

Being able to go to a bus stop or a metro stop and knowing it will get you where you want when you want shouldn’t be a luxury afforded to residents in a few U.S. cities.

Chappell Roan Made Me Gayer

by Kate DeHaan | Apr 22, 2024 | Placeless

What I will say is that it’s very gay and very tragic. But not tragic because they’re gay.

‘The Tortured Poets Department’: Why Is Taylor Swift So Good at Writing Girlhood?

by Emily Joy Stroble | Apr 21, 2024 | Placeless

Overall, the album works, especially as an examination of what it means to outgrow a person, a place, a dream—bittersweet.

Loneliness, Aging, and Cryptids: A Typical Spring

by Hannah McNulty | Apr 19, 2024 | Grand Rapids

I’m afraid of aging, but I’m determined to enjoy it as it comes, if I can just figure out how.

I’m Obsessed with ‘The Lighthouse’

by Isaac DeBoer | Apr 18, 2024 | Placeless

I felt alive when I thought about Willem Dafoe’s craggy face and Robert Pattinson’s bristly mustache. I knew I would love this movie.

On Decision Fatigue

by Carlisle Patete | Apr 17, 2024 | Chicago

Streaming services offer more choices than I’m ever going to be able to watch, there are too many excellent restaurants in Chicago to try, and Instagram serves up too many aesthetics for me to commit to in one lifetime.

Pride and Preju-dress

by Tiffany Kajiwara | Apr 16, 2024 | Placeless

I tried to make dresses one summer, but I mostly massacred innocent bed sheets

Out of Season

by Courtney Zonnefeld | Apr 15, 2024 | Grand Rapids

Three days after the 2024 spring equinox, I shoveled snow off of my sidewalks.

Ten Stephen King Books and What I Thought of Them

by Noah Keene | Apr 14, 2024 | Placeless

Every turn in this book is a left.

What Do You Need?

by Olivia Harre | Apr 13, 2024 | Placeless

God tells us in the Bible to love one another as we love ourselves.

Harvesting Honourably

by Jack Kamps | Apr 12, 2024 | New Jersey

We recall which unassuming shrubs pop with bright yellow blossoms, which trees are ornamental cherries and apples, how far the elderberry near the chicken coop has spread.

Lose Your Grandpa

by Gabrielle Eisma | Apr 11, 2024 | Placeless

I squint into the snow. The guy’s definitely jogging now.

Cicada Song

by Susannah Boersma | Apr 7, 2024 | Iowa

If I want to value the stories of others, I should value my own as well.

Words for When You’re Moving

by Ansley Kelly | Apr 3, 2024 | Placeless

You’ve never navigated that parking lot, or that odd intersection, or that strange left-lane exit and you are just trying to find the nearest Target.

A Spring Mix

by Christina Ribbens | Apr 2, 2024 | Placeless

I have a new kind of energy, I feel good in my clothes, I’ve eaten vegetables and walked barefoot in grass.

Big, Mean, and Green

by Sam Tuit | Apr 1, 2024 | Placeless

Compared to other superheroes out there, there’s not much interesting about a white guy who goes on a rampage when he’s angry.

Oath and Memory

by Kyric Koning | Mar 30, 2024 | Placeless

Even though it was his whole life, he feels like it should have been longer. That he had finally been robbed, and despite all his wishes he couldn’t give to her what she had to him.

On Anger

by Sabrina Lee | Mar 29, 2024 | Grand Rapids

Anger belongs to the relationships you care about, to the people you want to love and by whom you wish to be loved in return.

“What Can I Do if the Fire Goes Out?”

by Anna Jeffries | Mar 27, 2024 | Michigan

There’s the kind of grey that sucks in light like a black hole, making everything around it matte and dull. But then there’s the kind of grey that emits light and lifts rather than suppresses.

Firebug

by Annaka Koster | Mar 26, 2024 | Placeless

You understand intuitively why people are drawn to burned-out houses. Even grandmothers.

Tread Less Lightly

by Natasha (Strydhorst) Unsworth | Mar 25, 2024 | Placeless

We know our lives here are fleeting, but it’s the sort of knowledge we don’t care to call up that often—as if mortality were a somewhat shameful secret.

Sunsets Used to Mean Something (And Now They Do Again)

by Mitchell Barbee | Mar 23, 2024 | Washington, D.C.

The sunset memories of my teens are seared. The sunset memories of my twenties are speckled.

Five Easy Steps to a Light Workout

by Kate DeHaan | Mar 22, 2024 | Placeless

Now that the pre-workout has worn off enough that you can stop running to escape the impending explosion of your beating heart, pull out some weights.