[Nonfiction] Four Micro Pieces by Kevin Browne
Contests Here’s how a winner is determined in a water buffalo fight. The two behemoths push each other around head to head until one...
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- Jan 17
- 3 min
[Essay] If it be Your Will
By Sam Allen I hated southern Idaho. I had to go there. A few years ago, with my dad, for a full six weeks. Desert, high desert, little...
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- Dec 15, 2022
- 7 min
[Essay] Waking to the Wild
by Zoe Boyer Early Spring Having returned to Chicago for the summer, I spend most of each day curled on my parents’ couch, drifting in...
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- Dec 15, 2022
- 13 min
[Essay] On the Edge
By Christina Devin Vojta A violent surf pounded the rocky shore, where I stood with Scott at the southernmost tip of the South Island of...
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- Dec 15, 2022
- 10 min
[Essay] Eureka in the Ozarks: A Blanchard Springs Caverns Excursion
By Bronte Pearson The sun illuminated the fledgling leaves that peeked from barren branches. The Ozark forest was beautiful, even if...
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- Nov 1, 2022
- 8 min
[Essay] Moxi Mama
by Alissa Bird Roller skating is more than a sport; it’s a style, one that includes shiny spandex shorts, bikini tops, bright helmets,...
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- Sep 20, 2022
- 3 min
[Essay] Working Retail. Drunk.
by Dian Sousa Rivers and streams pass by, the sea passes and remains. This is how we must love it, faithful and fleeting. I wed the sea....
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- Aug 9, 2022
- 8 min
[Essay] Hemingway's House
by Simone Goldstone I arrived one week ago in Key West with my traveling companions: a boy I thought I loved, Sam, his girlfriend, Marie,...
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- Jul 1, 2022
- 15 min
[Essay] The Caguama
By Kate Iida “You’ll never see a caguama,” Chucho said as the white truck sped down the coastal highway near midnight. The breeze from...
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- Jul 1, 2022
- 3 min
[Essay] Strokes
by Bailey Loveless Your dad takes huge, unstoppable breaststrokes through the water. You pretend that he is a whale: a gentle giant,...
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- Jul 1, 2022
- 4 min
[Essay] Land's-End Eye to Sacrality
By Michael H. Kew Occasionally, through clear air within two hundred miles of California’s Vandenberg Air Force Base (“Welcome to Space...
- Jul 1, 2022
- 2 min
[Wanderlust] Snorkeling Turks and Caicos: Under the Sea
by Ian Hill [Transcript] Max: Oooeeee there’s daddio scuba diving Max: What’s that? Max: I don’t know what that is? *blanket confusion*...
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- May 24, 2022
- 3 min
[Essay] History Repeats Itself
by Kaia Gallagher The story of her harrowing escape remained etched on her face. Years of fear, grief, and sorrow carved deep worry lines...
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- Apr 12, 2022
- 1 min
[Essay] Terrible and True
by Evan Baughfman “Anybody hear us up there?!” voices shrieked beneath the waves of Pearl Harbor. Everyone heard. *** Trapped inside the...
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- Mar 1, 2022
- 3 min
[Essay] She Comes in Waves
by Penne Lynne “You move on from it, but the death will never disappear from view.” —Elizabeth McCracken Navigation Horizontal on a...
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- Dec 14, 2021
- 3 min
[Essay] Sometimes on Long Bike Rides I Yell...
Sometimes on Long Bike Rides I Yell the Lyrics to “Angel from Montgomery” and Think About Butterflies by Matthew Medendorp On a long bike...
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- Dec 14, 2021
- 12 min
[Essay] Altar
by Melody Greenfield “I want to worship your body,” my husband says to me. It’s a line that’s come up repeatedly over the years, not that...
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- Dec 14, 2021
- 20 min
[Essay] If We Were There for Leisure
by Trey Burnette CW: Suicide attempt I was twelve and just more than halfway through seventh grade when we moved near Santa Cruz. We...
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- Dec 14, 2021
- 3 min
[Essay] A Quarantine-Induced Throwback: August 1977
by Harry Gordon Fumbling through old pictures while waiting out the pandemic, I came across this one of me taken forty-three years ago....
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- Jul 16, 2021
- 7 min
[Essay] Dolphin Interrogation
By Shantha J. Bunyan The dolphin looked directly into my eyes! My heart was racing. I couldn't believe it. It was a dream come true in so...
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