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Pipes

Not long after my father died, a pipe under our kitchen sink must have burst. Leave it, Mom said. Her reasoning changed from one day […]

Left on the margins

On the second floor of the glass book tower in the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, there are two unremarkable-looking volumes of Shakespeare’s works. […]

Coffee spoons

I told my therapist that the reason I was going crazy was because of how many stories I read everyday that consisted mostly of conversations between […]

The song remains the same

In just over thirteen hours, her face will brim with unalloyed delight. She will strut to the center of the stage with pursed lips and […]

Playing house

I told him, maybe on our first date, that I didn’t want to get married. It was my first real date ever, or the first […]

You two stay with the bear

My father collected stuffed animals in his old age. I didn’t realize it right away. I figured the plush Siamese cat and bottlenose dolphin on […]

Paper bullets

On February 6th, 1988, the New York Times typeset a headline: ADRIAN WILSON, 64, PRINTING TEACHER AND BOOK DESIGNER.

Roost

I remember I bought a blue and white striped shirt in the months before that summer, and I remember standing in my room in cold gray March and trying it on.

What if?

  Imagine if I became pregnant tomorrow and wanted to keep the child. Besides having to explain myself to my parents, what would my next […]

Along for the ride

It wasn’t working for Skylar Thompson, none of it. Not her parents’ relationship, not her friends at elementary school, not Vyvanse, the daily medication her […]

Putting a typeface to the name

In the late 90s, Yale’s visual identity had a case of multiple personality disorder. Yale’s branding—seen on everything from its admissions brochures to its signs […]