Category Archives: Colorado
by Emily Joy Stroble | Oct 21, 2019 |
I don’t believe in ghosts. I do believe that wicked work cannot be hidden.
by Josh deLacy | Oct 6, 2019 |
I’ve peed behind dumpsters, on beaches, in alleys, gardens, parking lots, yards—and yet I was here, in this bathroom, I-can-pee-anywhere-ing in a space created for people who can’t.
by Quentin Baker | Jul 22, 2019 |
Herb has long since retired. Where his barber pole once hung there’s now an upscale Vietnamese joint that does light lunches and dinners.
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 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.
