Jacqueline Alnes shares her own dating app experiences and nine stories about the pitfalls of finding a partner online.
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Posted inArts & Culture, Nonfiction, Story
Stumbling Into Joy
The electric bass chose her, but it took 44 years to heed the call.
Posted inNonfiction
A Beautiful, Rugged Place: Erosion of the Body
The life-long writer, teacher, and activist believed she could save a piece of land or a species, but after her brother took his life, she questioned her optimism and how to grieve for him and the planet.
Posted inNonfiction
Anaphylaxis of the Mind
Alyson Pomerantz reframes her understanding of illness when an allergic reaction turns out to be something else.
Posted inNonfiction
Learning from Perimenopause and a Kpop Idol
Struggling with fluctuating hormones, Wendy Gan is inspired by the musician Mino to stop muting herself and return to writing.
Posted inEssays & Criticism, Feature, Nonfiction, Story
Through a Glass, Tearfully
Maureen Stanton contemplates her history of crying in inappropriate moments, and considers tears from gender-based and political perspectives.
Posted inNonfiction, Story
The Nighthawks of the Giant
Alex R. Jones starts grocery shopping late at night, and finds a new world opens up to him.
Posted inNonfiction
Self Portrait as a Human Interest Story
Reflecting on the adversities and victories of her youth, Emi Nietfeld interrogates how narratives of resilience minimize suffering.
Posted inNonfiction
The Coastal Shelf
June Amelia Rose remembers coming out in her youth to a turbulent family as her mother died of cancer.
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On Vanishing
Dementia is a kind of erasure, a death before death, where the living discount the infirmed long before they’re gone.
