Essay

What Happens When Nothing Happens

Fear, like a fungus, grows in the cool, ill-lit places: the pit of the stomach, the mind at night.

By Laine Bruzek

Californias

“My friends do coke off iPads,” I tell them. “I know,” he says gently. “You already told us that.”

By Mariah Oxley

On Frequenting Graveyards

An incorrupt body does not decay.

By Carrie Monahan

Naming the Moon

An essay about survivorship, womanhood, and the stories we tell our children

By Nora Engel-Hall

Editor’s note: This essay contains descriptions of sexual assault and may be triggering for some…

In a State of Homelessness: After the Earthquakes in Nuwakot, Nepal

A Kathmandu schoolteacher writes of his experience of the April and May earthquakes in Nepal.

Sensory Micro-Experiences of Stanford

Several anonymous contributors describe sensory experiences of Stanford.

By Various

On the Cosmos

A contributor and our essays editor write on the topic of the cosmos.

By Jenna Shapiro and Whitney McIntosh

Temporary Loves

Several writers reflect on the concept of temporary loves — obsessions we cling to with a passion and then release, almost as if they never occurred.

A Few Helpful Lessons from Forte Dei Marmi

It was an innocent five a.m. along the Viale della Repubblica in mid-July, when my sister Julia and I were returning, via rental bike, from an evening at Seven…

On Fear

Several contributors write short essays about their fears.

Risk Avoidance, and…