[feature] my aerophobia and i

By Joyce Gao | April 3

The cabin was dark. I sat amidst sleeping strangers and a baby crying nonstop. Maybe it was because everything from my hair to the provided blankets smelled like stale coffee that I sat wide awake, staring at the in-flight travel monitor—the only source of light in my vicinity. On the screen, a small ...

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[feature] on "on photography"

By Alissa Simon | March 20

I forget exactly when I first became uneasy with my photograph. 

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planted [feature]

By Sydney Pearson | March 13

“if someday you can’t find me you might

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knowing love [feature]

By Audrey Wijono | March 6

It is May of 1981. Tempo Magazine, one of Indonesia’s largest weekly newspapers, has just published an article about a wedding. “Their affections for one another are a little excessive, even in front of all their guests,” the author writes, seemingly amused. “Bonnie is pinching their ‘husband’s’ ...

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family ties [feature]

By Samira Lakhiani | February 28

As my mom reads off every name, my sister and I try our hardest to commit them to memory. We are six and eight years old, excitedly staring at the family tree in front of us. It is astonishing and extensive, with some very familiar names and others that I have only heard of as characters from my parents’ ...