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Homesick and Haunted: When House of leaves Changed my Life
I briefly look up from my frantic journaling, glancing at the cloud cover out the window.
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Bus Reading
I elongated vowels, chewed on consonants until I read world-building sentences.
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The Woman at the Door
One Sunday morning, there was a knock on my door. There’d been a party the night before, and I hadn’t gone to bed until 4 a.m. I couldn’t imagine who ...
Arts & Culture, Editor's Pick, Essay, Essay Saturday
To the American Businessman in the Hotel Room Next to Ours
I stood from the cot next to the shared wall. My mom leaned in close to hear you. Another crash. Furniture scraping against the floor. We listened to someone’s heavy ...
Editor's Pick, Essay Saturday, non-fiction
Drift
Put some music on. Go on, put something on. Sometimes we would last two tracks, sometimes three. The hand that unhitched itself from the steering wheel and put us back ...
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The Championship Game
The sun beats through the humid air, upon the stone and dirt streets. High cumulus clouds drift above the heavy-forest limestone mountains.
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Editor's Pick, Essay, Essay Saturday
Riding an Endangered Eagle
The train between Mexico City and Nuevo Laredo was called the Águila Azteca (Aztec Eagle). Within a year of this ride, this passenger train service – along with dozens upon dozens ...
Editor's Pick, Essay, Essay Saturday
The King’s Gardner
He indicated a solitary rose drooping against a cracked wall in which curious lizards cocked their heads, and then he swept his arms encompassing everything around us.
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Editor's Pick, Essay, Essay Saturday
Three Cats and One Man
There are three cats in this story: two dead; one dying, then dead. There is one man. Also dying, then dead. This is a true story.
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Editor's Pick, Essay, Essay Saturday
Our Shared Neuroses
Sitting in the Cricketers pub, I listened as Grandma asked me whether I typically experienced difficulties “passing stools.” She seemed disappointed when I told her, “No, I didn’t.” I was ...
Editor's Pick, Essay, Essay Saturday
Small Steps
The house I’ve lived in with my family for the past two years is spacious and newly renovated. The comforts are numerous, the company good. But in the spring of ...
Editor's Pick, Essay, Essay Saturday
Scarper
Courtesy of the author.
Angela stood in the doorway. Black jeans, nice coat, expensive trainers. I thought she was one of the posh wives with a donation: a Waitrose carrier bag ...
Editor's Pick, Essay, Essay Saturday
Ekushay
The 21st of February is International Mother Language Day – the most celebrated day worldwide for languages. Grimly, this day also poses a strange paradox – a day that reminds ...
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Deciphering the Signs
A native Brit living in Berlin experiences Russia.
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Editor's Pick, Essay, Essay Saturday
All My Relations
Image by Travis Zimmerman from Pixabay
January 2020. We were preparing for a new semester, a doomed semester, but we didn’t know it yet. On the third floor of ...
Soundtracks
In the provincial town of Udon Thani, in Northern Thailand, in the middle of a brain-meltingly hot day, my partner and I find a terrace and sit down to have ...
Editor's Pick, Essay Saturday, Literature
Other People’s Epiphanies
Reflecting on life and life’s lessons.
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The Weight of Everything
Leaving to find yourself.
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Laughing
When one thing changes everything.
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Editor's Pick, Essay, Essay Saturday
A Litany
You see yourself as one of the lucky ones.
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