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    [Essay] The Caguama
    • 6 days ago
    • 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...
    [Essay] Strokes
    • 6 days ago
    • 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,...
    [Essay] Land's-End Eye to Sacrality
    • 6 days ago
    • 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...
    [Wanderlust] Snorkeling Turks and Caicos: Under the Sea
    • 6 days ago
    • 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*...
    [Essay] History Repeats Itself
    • May 24
    • 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...
    [Essay] Terrible and True
    • Apr 12
    • 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...
    [Essay] She Comes in Waves
    • Mar 1
    • 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...
    [Essay] Sometimes on Long Bike Rides I Yell...
    • Dec 15, 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...
    [Essay] Altar
    • Dec 15, 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...
    [Essay] If We Were There for Leisure
    • Dec 15, 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...
    [Essay] A Quarantine-Induced Throwback: August 1977
    • Dec 15, 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....
    [Essay] Dolphin Interrogation
    • 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...
    [Essay] Glow Me Out of the Darkness
    • Jul 16, 2021
    • 7 min

    [Essay] Glow Me Out of the Darkness

    By Whitney Mackman “So, they aren’t actually glowworms,” our guide stalled as we settled in against the sharp, ridged limestone for the...
    [Essay] At the Mercy of an Old Friend
    • Jul 16, 2021
    • 9 min

    [Essay] At the Mercy of an Old Friend

    By Michael Cuglietta We took a bus to the Aztec pyramids, an hour outside Mexico City. After touring the pyramids, we were picked up by...
    [Essay] Outrunning by David Martinez
    • Jul 16, 2021
    • 18 min

    [Essay] Outrunning by David Martinez

    By David Martinez I had a reverence for skateboarding, spoke about it like it had saved my life, and for the years in which I skated, and...
    [Editor's Note] A Winter of Enlightenment by David M. Olsen
    • Jan 13, 2021
    • 2 min

    [Editor's Note] A Winter of Enlightenment by David M. Olsen

    What a year. 2020. In most ways, I’m glad it is over. I lost my job, had hard times, struggled in more ways than one. And, so did...
    [Essay] Dad Hacks by David Zimmerle
    • Jan 12, 2021
    • 5 min

    [Essay] Dad Hacks by David Zimmerle

    Dad Hacks by David Zimmerle You’re on your own now more than ever, dad. And somehow March never ended. The worst Friday the 13th ever....
    [Essay] The House that Built Me
    • Oct 7, 2020
    • 3 min

    [Essay] The House that Built Me

    by Kira Star I woke up to another routine morning in my sleepy, foggy town in Central California. While looking out my bedroom window, I...
    #SIP - Essay by Karen t'Kint
    • May 22, 2020
    • 2 min

    #SIP - Essay by Karen t'Kint

    Salad Days by Karen t'Kint These days taste like vinegar, deceptively served in a plastic party glass on a warm spring evening. Only...
    #SIP - Essay by Shea McCollum
    • May 9, 2020
    • 5 min

    #SIP - Essay by Shea McCollum

    13 Ways of Looking at a Virus 1. It starts with a whisper. One headline amongst many. A lesser order disaster of concern. Only one person...
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