"Remember when you tried to teach me the violin and I poked you in the eye and we laughed till we cried? I wish I had stuck with it so I could help make music.
Retelling a story in Wexford County for thirty years
"The problem with legends is that the gun will never really go off."
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"I didn’t respond to my birth mother’s letter because I didn’t know how. The letter became a fuzzy part of my history, a fun fact that I’d blurt out when I was drunk and my guard was down."
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"'Then we’ll fix it. There’s an American in my ancestry, back when that meant something. I have a legacy to live up to of trying to fix impossible problems.'"
On Neymar.
"Maybe you hit it when you’re 15 or 25 or 50, but eventually, you start to think about your place, your role, your legacy."
The Prince of Acoma
“'People don’t know what it’s like for me. People don’t know what it’s like coming from a reservation to school out here. No one understands.' I listened to Dakota and told him that I’d always be there for him."
Pedestrian
"A man in my city/a long time before/it was mine/carved a home under/the sidewalk, burrowed into/the earth like/an animal."
Story Eyes
"We knew even as kids that a good story starts with good characters. But something happens in between the front and back covers that captures us. It's what makes a story a story."
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Issue 3: "Story" [a letter from the editor]
"I think I am obsessed with narratives. I am obsessed with what narratives say about their creators, about what the gaps reveal. Structure matters. Delivery matters. Aesthetics matter."
Houses Filled with Honey
"In fever dreams I always enter the laundry room of my dad’s apartment, and the back wall opens and becomes a rickety wood-planked walkway."
poolboy
"And then there’s the wall, and the turn, and now you’re back underwater, where it’s quiet. Just your heartbeat down there. Then you surface, because you have to breathe."
Welcome to the Neighborhood
"The couple felt a presence the first time they came to see the house. It was a modern monstrosity, in that it was beautiful and tasteful but an otherwise unnecessary, lavish and decadent addition to the neighborhood."
Where do we go from here? Omakase Magazine asks an expert
"If they work hard through the term there is always this moment where something clicks and their maps make a huge leap forward. I think that is my favorite part in teaching, watching those transformations."
Don't Mess with Christmas: Tradition, Holidays, and the Generational Divide
"He is happiest in the past. It’s the place where he feels most comfortable. And although nostalgia might make it better than how it actually was, for him it’s real."
The Horizon
"A fanfare of merging colors / Accompanies assorted mirages / As they pitter-patter along the horizon line"
Nostalgia, America, and the Happiest Place on Earth
"The price point alone excludes many families. It isn’t even a place everyone actually wants to go, even if they’re told it’s somewhere they should go."
Bluestones for the Bored: Stonehenge and Other Travel Hype
"Stonehenge is really the British equivalent of Four Corners, having only the advantages of a historical narrative and the allure of British culture to suck in hapless tourists like myself."
Digging Out of a Bad Place
"I'm in a bad place right now. Not physically; I have a nice apartment in a reasonably affordable city, and I'm not in imminent danger of ending up on the street."
Time | Place | Untitled
"She was dressed in all grey, but her heart wore red. Slowly with the tip of her finger, she traced the outline of another’s face, memorizing every line and freckle and secret."
Legos, placemats, and community mapping
"My fascination with maps heightened when I transitioned into middle school and learned that in addition to their navigational purposes, maps showed..."