Written by: Samantha Hass The found family trope, which depicts unrelated characters uniting to form a family-like bond, is among my favorite tropes in media. During a recent rewatch of Hayao Miyazaki’s 2004 film Howl’s Moving Castle, I recognized the emphasis that the narrative places on found family. I love…
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Searching for a Better Crossword Experience
Written by: Margaret Devlin What’s an eight-letter word to describe my relationship with crossword puzzles? Okay, honestly, it’s two words smushed together with a hyphen. No, the hyphen does not have its own box. Love-hate. That’s the word. Words. Yes, technically we would need nine boxes. My grandmother fills out…
Crumbling Walls By Kristina Reardon (2017)
Long River Graduate Writing Award, Winner (2017) “Petra, she say there be bones,” my grandmother told me, pointing beyond me to the old castle on top of the hill. The frame of the old, Slavic structure was about as beautiful as a decaying tooth with jagged corners. A revolting brownness…
On (Not) Writing While Traveling By: Stephanie Koo
Would it be blasphemous to suggest that I didn’t have the time of my life while I was abroad? I should have expected to feel this way, in all honesty. At the time, the opportunity that I had received felt like a once in a lifetime adventure. When else was…
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