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gridlock [feature]

By Samira Lakhiani | November 20

It’s possible to find comfort in something intended to be perplexing. Filling out the symmetrical 15x15 crossword puzzle grid is a joy often experienced in the tranquility of a hammock or a cozy corner on the sofa, accompanied by a warm mug of tea. The clues, riddled with cryptic questions and demanding ...

26.2 notes for you [feature]

By Ellyse Givens | November 15

extrovert gone quiet [feature]

By Ayoola Fadahunsi | November 6

In one of the happiest countries in the world, I turned inward, a quiet countenance taking over my typically jovial spirit.

only the hills [feature]

By Sydney Pearson | October 30

“All things come to an end.

nesting days [feature]

By Alissa Simon | October 24

For thousands of days, I have woken to birdsong. The street where I grew up is flush with trees, some a century thick, that provide home to robins, cardinals, house finches, and mourning doves cooing in the blue-black of early morning. These birds scatter in my wake on morning walks. They snip at each ...

when the clock ticks differently [feature]

By Ivy Rockmore | October 16

“No marriage till you’re 30.”

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leave no trace [feature]

By Michelle Bi | October 9

It starts and ends with the hills.

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loveaches [feature]

By Ellyse Givens | October 2

TW: self harm

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rewinding [feature]

By Sydney Pearson | September 25

At the sand-colored strip mall near my elementary school, wedged between the dry cleaners and ice cream parlor, was my sister and I’s childhood playground. On long summer days or rainy afternoons, my mother would park beneath the dusty sycamores and walk us across the asphalt to the glass storefront. ...

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blood, not semen [feature]

By Ivy Rockmore | September 18

I was only 17 when I ejaculated into the cup that my future children would be frozen in. I was about to become a mother, whether I wanted to or not.

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mama, it's me [feature]

By Elena Jiang | April 24

On our second visit, Xiao Li tells us of a breakthrough: If you knot the top corners of the blanket around the first metal bar on each side of the bed, lao lao won’t get up at night. The contraption is simple: she tries to sit up, the blanket holds her down. With such little room between the mattress ...

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out of bloom [feature]

By Samira Lakhiani | April 10

“They’re just trees; no more pictures!” whines a boy, maybe six years old, to his parents. He is much more invested in the line of ice cream trucks a few meters away than posing with the sakura.

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my aerophobia and i [feature]

By Joyce Gao | April 3

The cabin was dark. I sat amidst sleeping strangers and a baby crying nonstop. Maybe it was because everything from my hair to the provided blankets smelled like stale coffee that I sat wide awake, staring at the in-flight travel monitor—the only source of light in my vicinity. On the screen, a small ...

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on "on photography" [feature]

By Alissa Simon | March 20

I forget exactly when I first became uneasy with my photograph.

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planted [feature]

By Sydney Pearson | March 13

“if someday you can’t find me you might

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knowing love [feature]

By Audrey Wijono | March 6

It is May of 1981. Tempo Magazine, one of Indonesia’s largest weekly newspapers, has just published an article about a wedding. “Their affections for one another are a little excessive, even in front of all their guests,” the author writes, seemingly amused. “Bonnie is pinching their ‘husband’s’ ...

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family ties [feature]

By Samira Lakhiani | February 28

As my mom reads off every name, my sister and I try our hardest to commit them to memory. We are six and eight years old, excitedly staring at the family tree in front of us. It is astonishing and extensive, with some very familiar names and others that I have only heard of as characters from my parents’ ...