Learning to Love the Mountain While Getting Over It By Joshua M. Henson • May 9th, 2024 To begin the task of climbing was to promise myself that I could reach the summit.
Area of Effect A Wilderness of Thoughts Grown in Snufkin: Melody of Moominvalley By Jay Castello • May 7th, 2024 The garden is not the park, although the tension of its civilizing influence is never resolved.
A Tale of Game Restrictions By Zonghang Zhou • April 30th, 2024 “I know what you want better than you do, and I am doing this for your own good.” Such blatant patronizing attitudes reveal the inherent disparity of identity between adults and minors.
Musings The Everlasting Allure of the Shitty City By Blake Hester • April 25th, 2024 I feel like I’ve never truly cared about where I live, and as such, places have never felt truly comfortable. But I do care about Astoria, about New York.
Noise Complaint My Google Home is Cursed: A Cosmic Horror Story By Ben Sailer • April 24th, 2024 When Ben’s smart speaker refuses to play music from specific artists, he begins to believe it’s cursed. Could his delusions of demonic possession be true?
Turn of the Zillennial By Perry Gottschalk • April 12th, 2024 This is the real lesson of Emily is Away and the series as a whole. It isn’t a statement that over time, friendships fade. It’s that the experiences you have with them are vastly more personal than who you were at the time.
Don’t Hurt Girls When You Dance (Or Any Other Time) By Juno Stump • April 5th, 2024 We may never know for sure, but I think there’s a reason that so many trans women have been able to identify with Kurt Cobain’s joy, pain and suffering, so strongly.
Rookie of the Year Beers of the Osa Peninsula By Matt Marrone • April 4th, 2024 Consumed at any temperature lower than brain-freeze cold, they are uninspiring at best. When found frigid on a deliriously humid day in the rain forest, however, they are a revelation.
Why Max Hass Matters By Joshua M. Henson • April 1st, 2024 The act of resisting the Nazi occupation with violence is not enough. The Resistance must also revolt via empathy towards those that fascism casts aside.
Exploits Feature Liminality: Fear of Transition By Kasio Dalton • April 1st, 2024 “It’s a terrifying suggestion that someone might call a transitory space home.”
