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The Perks of Being a Burden

by Sam Koster | Apr 25, 2026 | Placeless

I kept making comments to my friends about when I was back on my feet I’d take them out to dinner. They’d say sure with a face that clearly suggested they expected no such thing from me.

Recovering Spiritual Masochist

by Sophia Medawar | Apr 24, 2026 | Placeless

Pain meant you were doing Christianity right.

I Was Wrong About the Time (And I’m So Sorry)

by Emily Joy Stroble | Apr 21, 2026 | Placeless

I was born a few weeks early. So, I’ve been making up for it in five- and ten-minute increments ever since.

Years

by Rylan Shewmaker | Apr 20, 2026 | Belgium

I wish that loneliness were linear—I feel lonely in new ways, and old ones too.

What ‘The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt’ Continues to Teach Me About Agency and Choice

by Luke Brandsen | Apr 19, 2026 | Placeless

Let’s roll that one back, king.

This C-Drama Might Have Cured My Internal Racism

by Priscilla Chang | Apr 18, 2026 | Placeless

And I think it may have healed a piece of myself.

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.