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Five Incredible Games I Played This Year
by Philip Rienstra | Dec 10, 2025 | Placeless
Currently, I’m in the middle of troubleshooting a production line of machines that work together to make uranium hexafluoride.
A Love Letter to Arkansas
by Michelle Ferdinands | Dec 9, 2025 | Arkansas
I don’t know if I should scold you for taking up camera memory space.
Gradvent
by Josh Parks | Dec 8, 2025 | Placeless
Perhaps then your recommendation letter will arrive via carrier pigeon.
What would you write if no one you loved was going to read it?
by Kate Wilmot | Dec 7, 2025 | Placeless
When I was inevitably rejected from the six MFA programs I applied to, my understanding of myself as a writer crumbled into a number of pieces that were far too small to pick up for a while.
If a train could teach you the meaning of life…
by Emilyn Shortridge | Dec 6, 2025 | Japan
The trains will go regardless of whether or not I am on them.
Review: Beasts of a Little Land by Juhea Kim
by Grace Buller | Dec 4, 2025 | Korea
The story is grounded in a physical landscape, where food, clothing, and furniture reflect the changing world of Jade and her acquaintances.
Empty Snack Boxes in Advent
by Madeline Witvliet | Dec 3, 2025 | Placeless
The waiting and work we put in make the outcome sweet.
Animated Chickens Ranked by Appeal
by Christina Ribbens | Dec 2, 2025 | Placeless
This chicken has presence. This chicken has stature.
The Comic Books I Thought About Most This Year
by Sam Tuit | Dec 1, 2025 | Placeless
It’s weird to say I’ve been thinking about a comic that came out two weeks ago all year.
The Digital Renaissance of the Battery-Powered Camera
by Julia McKee | Nov 29, 2025 | Placeless
I now know exactly how my mom felt when we started wearing bell bottoms again.
boys who play with words.
by Izzy Nunez | Nov 28, 2025 | Washington, D.C.
Our melting pot is being emptied out, and they are sifting through the ingredients.
The Ghost in the Machine
by Anna Jeffries | Nov 27, 2025 | Placeless
Perhaps AI is a new iteration of the Grand Inquisitor; a benevolent pseudo-dictator of our own making.
Feed Me
by Annaka Koster | Nov 26, 2025 | Placeless
I’m finding it hard to let this thing go.
I Am Alive and That is My Choice
by Sam Koster | Nov 25, 2025 | Placeless
I had to change something or else, and the “or else” was really starting to worry me.
Grief and Gratitude
by Sophia Medawar | Nov 24, 2025 | Grand Rapids
For a year, I’ve kept my phone with me at all times (and even started sleeping with it under my pillow) so that I wouldn’t miss this call.
On Long-Distance Loving
by Savannah Shustack | Nov 22, 2025 | Maine
I feel the rough scabs of gaps I used to fill.
Fourteen Miles in Tokyo
by Emily Joy Stroble | Nov 21, 2025 | Japan
The air on the platform is heavy under the city. The train arrives in a pungent, metallic breeze. No seats now.
Vignettes, July Through November
by Rylan Shewmaker | Nov 20, 2025 | Placeless
Individual diners find unexpected friends across a restaurant; medieval and recent history intersect with the present in ways that are varyingly hopeful, disheartening, and funny.
Three Months With Wolf Alice’s ‘The Clearing’
by Luke Brandsen | Nov 19, 2025 | Placeless
It pushes the band’s artistic endeavors into enriched territory while simultaneously managing to hold true to their established identity
Enjoy It First
by Priscilla Chang | Nov 18, 2025 | Thailand
To my student, The Maze Runner wasn’t an exploration in the dystopian genre. It was a story. An entertaining, exhilarating, and enjoyable story.
Drummer’s Girlfriend
by Carlisle Patete | Nov 17, 2025 | Placeless
I was never a Justin Bieber, One Direction, boy-band fanatic, but what I feel watching Micah play must be what the hype is all about.
Collecting Vinyls Without a Record Player
by Nathan Hilbrands | Nov 16, 2025 | Michigan
Giving up when confronted with the imperfections of the world isn’t going to make the world a better place.
Remembrance of a Dirty Childhood
by Clint Wilson | Nov 15, 2025 | Colorado
I had forgotten land existed beyond the concrete.
Ten Stephen King Books and What I Thought of Them III: The Bachman Lands
by Noah Keene | Nov 14, 2025 | Placeless
Photo Credit Reader beware, I’m about to talk about scares. (And with the right title: it’s “What I Thought of Them,” Me from Last Fall. You mistyped your own title, you git!) Ahem. As always, I (the post calvin’s self-appointed Stephen King scholar) spun a randomizer...
Struggle to Heal
by Olivia Harre | Nov 13, 2025 | Placeless
Fifteen years into this struggle, and it’s difficult not to be discouraged that nothing is different.
My Complicated History with Mice
by Liana Hirner | Nov 12, 2025 | Grand Rapids
I would be lying if I said I hadn’t been hoping that Cora, the mousetrap queen, would be able to take care of this.
Walking in Place
by Eleanor Lee | Nov 11, 2025 | Placeless
I wonder if driving isn’t transportation’s equivalent of scrolling: too much input, too quick to remember more than a fraction of it.
The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald
by Philip Rienstra | Nov 10, 2025 | Michigan
At around 7:10 p.m., the Anderson asked how the Fitzgerald was doing, to which Captain McSorley responded: “We are holding our own.” That was the last communication heard from the ship.
Five Michelle Recommended Books
by Michelle Ferdinands | Nov 9, 2025 | Placeless
It’s not an exaggeration to say this book changed my life.
I grump
by Kate Wilmot | Nov 7, 2025 | Placeless
But I frown and sigh all the way to the car, down the highway, and into the parking lot.
