Everywhere is the same place when you're drinking I remember the first time I was ever scared in my life
Nature Points Out the Folly of Man (This piece was originally for paid subscribers only, but I'm opening it up for today. Please consider subscribing for free or with a paid subscription to help pay our great contributors.) by Sean T. Collins “Of all my childhood obsessions, I think about Godzilla the least. Which makes
You have more options than they will ever tell you you have Today we're going to have a discussion about living with a chronic illness and the need to advocate for yourself in the face of indifference to your pain or refusal of treatment from doctors or your insurance company. After two long years of inconclusive tests, and ten years
Searching the Sunny Florida Keys for Netflix's Darkest Show This piece was originally published in Esquire in 2016. When you raise kids here, it's all about the water," our captain said. We'd just launched from the marina at The Stoned Crab in Key West, and Tony Osborn, the co-owner of the restaurant and the
An unholy alliance I hope everyone had a nice Thanksgiving! I had a very nice time myself visiting my family and staying with my in-laws and getting together with old high school friends. Then after that like all good cosmopolitan liberals everywhere I sat down to read this delightful new essay by celebrated
No living witness Scrubbing dishes in the soup splattered sink. To be able to tell myself later that I had given it an honest try. You can lie to yourself about anything you want if there’s no one following up. Jumbling and jostling around and splashing like a child with a house
Everything was an injury 30% off one year's subscription Six a.m. cold and bright on a mid-November morning. Time to attach my brain to the Lying Machine and read one thousand lies an hour until I can crawl back into bed and dream of different lies. For a month now I
Queerness in Colorado Springs Today Annie Howard looks back on the one year anniversary of the Club Q nightclub shooting and reflects on growing up queer in Colorado Springs. I published another excerpt from A Creature Wanting Form yesterday which you can read below or jump directly to here. My whole life I’ve
Trying to convince the world that you are dying Watch this video if you can. Even if you can't. A video broadcasted a few moments ago by Al Jazeera shows the areas that were targeted in the airstrikes last night in #Gaza, revealing the immense destruction and the efforts to rescue citizens from under the rubble. pic.
A million ways to get things done The death toll in Gaza since October 7 has climbed to 5,791 with more than 16,000 wounded Al Jazeera reports. Nearly half of the dead are children. Many many others are still missing and feared trapped under the rubble. This is Mujahid. He was 7y old. We treated
