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A: abortion, acne, acting, addiction, aging, ai, aliens, americana, amy winehouse, anxiety, arson, assimilation, astrology, authoritarianism
B: basketball, beauty, bible stories, billboards, birds, birth, birthdays, blood, blue ridge mountains, bodies, borders, bourbon, braided essays, bushwick, byron
C: camping, cars, cats, christians, cockroaches, coming of age, conspiracy theories, convenience stores, costumes, cuckoo clocks, cultural exchange
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E: earthquakes, eating disorders, ekphrasis, etymologies, ex-lovers, ex-wives
F: families, false alarms, fathers, fellatio, female friendship, fentanyl, flamethrowers, flowers, fragments, fruit, funerals
G: garbage, gay men, gentrification, ghazal, golf, goodwill, goosebumps, grasshoppers, graveyards, greece, grindr, grocery lists, guy fieri
H: hamlet, happy endings, haunted houses, high school, holocaust, homelessness, homework, horror, hot dogs
I: ignorance, imposter syndrome, impressionism, infertility, instinct, invisibility, iran, iguanas
J: jealousy, jeopardy, jeremy allen white, journalism, judaism
K: kafka, karma, kink, kissing, kitsch
L: lasers, law school, lesbians, light and shadow, living objects, lost and found, lube
M: maggots, magic, marriage, masculinity, mary oliver, mean girls, memoir, memory, mental illness, milton, mini vans, missionary position, missiles, monsters, mood stabilizers, moon, mortality, mothers, moths, murder
N: nail salons, new jersey, new york
O: obsession, octopuses, onions, oreos, orphans
P: painting, palestine, parenting, parties, passage of time, peace offerings, pennies, phantoms, phone addiction, photography, picnics, pissing, pools, portland, power dynamics, prague, prayer, prison, proof of life, psychedelics
Q: questionable love, quilt making
R: refugees, religion, rich kids, rituals, role playing, roses, runaways
S: sadism, salt, schizophrenia, sculpture, sequins, sex therapy, shakespeare, shitty jobs, shopping, silence, skateboarding, social media, soccer, sons, spelling, spirals, sports, springtime, stds, storms, stray cats, street food, suburbia, surprise, sweat, syria
T: tarot, taylor swift, testicles, theory of relativity, tiktok, toes, trans girls, trans guys, trees, true crime
U: u.s. government, ugliness, uncertain futures, underwear, ups
V: vagabonds, velcro, video, viruses, vulnerability
W: waiting, walking, walmart, weddings, weed, weirdness, wildness, witches, wombs, writing
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Y: yearning, you should never fake anything, youtube
Z: zenos paradox, zero-sum, zombies, zoo

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Epiphany 7/28/25 Epiphany 7/28/25

On Crossing Borders: An Interview with Helen Benedict

“Writing fiction is like controlled daydreaming, whereas writing nonfiction is more like putting together a complicated three-dimensional puzzle.”

Raad Rahman 3/17/22 Raad Rahman 3/17/22

Tattling to Establishments

“I wasn’t willing to participate in swindling others into believing that Hungary was open to foreigners…”

Frances Nguyen 11/26/21 Frances Nguyen 11/26/21

Restitution, Or, A Lonely Walk Through The British Museum

Before I discovered this project, I never imagined the drum as anything more than an inert object behind glass, one that I knew belonged to my people but was so far from home that it didn’t have meaning anymore.

Gillon Crichton 10/27/21 Gillon Crichton 10/27/21

Night Visions

“The desert tests the faith of even the most committed. When I received orders to deploy here, I imagined sand dunes and shimmering heat.”

Zephaniah Sole 10/14/20 Zephaniah Sole 10/14/20

Refugee

“Up here he no longer needed to hide his voice.”

Yoojin Na 1/20/20 Yoojin Na 1/20/20

The Fifth Reason

Levy, who cries on escalators, doesn’t hate her children. She doesn’t hate her soon-to-be-ex-husband. Rather, she hates that a woman must extend herself to assume a domestic role and become a stranger to the person she once was.