Category Archives: Colorado
by Emily Joy Stroble | Apr 21, 2019
Fire is a dirty thing. Petulant, wild, prone to fits.
by Emily Joy Stroble | Aug 21, 2018
It is in the repetitive ritual of opening and closing the house each day—unrolling the broken shade by hand, wrestling with the deadbolt on the warped front door, seeing age—that I find inexplicable revelations.
by Spencer Cone | Jun 30, 2018
Saint John once wrote that perfect love casts out fear. I beg to differ.
by Jon Gorter | Aug 29, 2017
I can still remember the first time I lied to my parents. I was seven years old and was obsessed with Indiana Jones.
by Ben Rietema | Jan 4, 2016
“So I see you enjoy burritos…” I would say and then stare at my shoes. “ And I observe that you are also wearing… [squinting] shoes… very cool…”
by Josh deLacy | Sep 6, 2015
No one believes it. I didn’t believe it, until I grabbed the bumper, tried to lift, and realized I didn’t even know how to grip the thing. I’m writing about an experience I still don’t fully understand, and the sharing of it is even more incomprehensible.
by Mary Margaret Healy | Dec 19, 2013
Somewhere around 5:00 a.m. on Saturday, mom will go into Noah’s Ark mode, creating piles two at a time and designating where they will go in the car.
by Melissa Dykhuis | Nov 13, 2013
On the way out of the house, the thief’s bleeding hand had grabbed my Bible from where it lay on the floor. There’s a story inside it, one that I hope they read.
by Josh deLacy | Sep 6, 2013
Say what you will about jam bands and hippies—Phish fans have enthusiasm. More than the music, more than the thrill of seeing famous performers, I liked the concert for its energy.
by Lander Hultin | Jul 4, 2013
Fellow Calvinites, if you, like my unfortunate college roommate and Michigan native have never been farther west than—what did he say?—Iowa!, then you have never lived.
