Category: Points of View

Phantasmic Reproduction

On photographic reproduction, alienation, and celebrity canonization.

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All crows are murdered when the sun goes down

A laptop, a screen door, a sunset, and everything that is.

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At the Nexus of Almost

Running out the clock on a life before 20.

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In the Margin

“The curling ends of cursive letters reach toward something that is impossible to grasp. The problem is evident on the page: there is always a space between one thing and another.”

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Am I The Asshole?

AITA for wanting my roommates to recycle?  By u/trashtalker This last summer I (20M) was living in Chicago with some randomly assigned roommates. They turned out to be chill. One was a foster kid, one was a wealthy Manhattanite, and … Read More

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Middle of Nowhere, Zen New Jersey

It’s all alphabet soup
in 12-pt font,
bitter black bleeding into vegetable stock —
A poem or two or three, falling into one another like bodies in orbit

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Double Shot

Two friends walk into a café…

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Où sont les fleurs?

Distributing flowers at food banks is more than a frivolous act.

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Falling Back

A Nass writer takes in the changing of the season.

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Thoughts from my time sitting on the window sill of a castle in the Czech countryside

Is it better to not understand than to be misunderstood?

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Threefold Repetition Doesn’t Hold, Not Even A Stalemate

“The longest recorded chess match was two hundred and sixty-nine moves, over twenty hours. Mine has drawn on for three fraught years now, and it still persists.”

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Reflections Inspired by “David”

Loss and belonging at Lorde’s show in Philadelphia.

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