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Inside the Lines

by Klaas Walhout | Aug 12, 2020 | Placeless

Recently, I have been asked more and more to pray outside of the rooms of patients who are very sick with the coronavirus.

Living Deliberately

by Lauren Cole | Aug 11, 2020 | Placeless

I used to think “living deliberately” meant doing crazy things, making wild memories.

Clarity

by Jordan Petersen Kamp | Aug 10, 2020 | Placeless

I have not felt my sharpest lately, which surely has a lot to do with *gestures broadly* all this.

Félicette

by Gwyneth Findlay | Aug 9, 2020 | Placeless

The cats were all female for their presumed docility in the stressful endeavor of flying into space.

Arvo Pärt’s Musical Breastplate

by Josh Parks | Aug 8, 2020 | Placeless

A Deer’s Cry therefore asks us to reconsider our assumptions about divine help and protection.

Dragons Live Forever

by Susannah Boersma | Aug 7, 2020 | Placeless

I don’t want to be the kind of camp counselor who is raising a new generation of middle schoolers who have 786 pins on their wedding board on Pinterest.

Economics and Hatsune Miku

by Alex Johnson | Aug 5, 2020 | Placeless

Oftentimes, when I think about the amount of my life that I’ve spent playing video games, I cringe.

John Lewis: My Founding Father

by Comfort Sampong | Aug 4, 2020 | Washington, D.C.

But what most makes John Lewis one of my founding fathers is his lifelong rootedness in love.

Landlocked

by Ansley Kelly | Aug 3, 2020 | New York

I used to finish races like that so sweaty and happy and exhilarated that I didn’t need any rum to feel like the queen of the world.

Exposed and Processed

by Cotter Koopman | Aug 2, 2020 | Placeless

Something like the Holga makes it impossible to forget that photos are made of light-affected chemicals on a roll of paper.

This Year According to the Notes App on my Phone

by Katerina Parsons | Aug 1, 2020 | Michigan, Washington, D.C.

Here, lightly edited, are a year of the mundane and serious and baffling things I felt the need to save.

The One Time You’re Asked to Hurry Up in Honduras

by Katie Ulrich | Jul 31, 2020 | Honduras

Everyone who gets on is headed their own way—school, work, church, shopping, home—but for a brief moment, the barreling bus brings us all together.

Toll Road Home

by Emily Armstrong | Jul 30, 2020 | New York, Texas

There are several “worst parts” about driving across the country.

Matthew McConaughey’s Anti-bedtime Story

by Christian Becker | Jul 29, 2020 | Placeless

I got to sleep eventually.

4,400 Years Ago

by Jon Gorter | Jul 28, 2020 | Placeless

As evening settles in, the flickering light of the fire illuminates the faces of family and friends gathered around, eager to hear another story from the family elders.

The Last One

by Brad Zwiers | Jul 27, 2020 | Placeless

Then, at some point in our spin last night, we caught our collective breath.

Holy Mola Mola

by Annaka Koster | Jul 26, 2020 | Placeless

The scene, at first, is more akin to Jaws than Blue Planet—a silent silhouette from out of the hazy depths.

There Is No Safety

by Katie Van Zanen | Jul 25, 2020 | Placeless

The very hard thing I am learning right now—about race, and about myself—is that the rules I have been living by are not very good ones.

Bottle Episode

by Leigh Peterson | Jul 24, 2020 | Placeless

Yesterday, as I was beginning to write this, a fly filled the room.

Unpacking the Attic: Home in Eight Vignettes

by Alex Westenbroek | Jul 23, 2020 | Grand Rapids, Kalamazoo, Michigan, Minnesota

Technically my third home, but my memories begin here.

The Voice in The Basement and Other Romances

by Emily Joy Stroble | Jul 21, 2020 | Placeless

The episodes are short stories, and, like short stories, they have the boldness to be small, specific, uncomfortable, or shamelessly tender.

Roads: Untaken, Taken

by Gabe Gunnink | Jul 20, 2020 | Grand Rapids, New York, Washington

But I will often retrace the roads and words I’ve taken and exhale, exultant.

SUM(July2013:July2020)

by Mary Margaret Healy | Jul 19, 2020 | Placeless

When I got lonely, I would express that feeling by writing about geography, current events, and my personal life, outlining the ways those forces contributed to that loneliness.