Christopher DiLoreto 7/24/20 Christopher DiLoreto 7/24/20

Reflections on the Billboard Hot 100, 1993-1998 (Part 1 of 4)

Let's talk about the mid-90s

John Palmucci, Jr. 7/23/20 John Palmucci, Jr. 7/23/20

A War Criminal's Guide to Life

What are my personal unknown unknowns?

Mark Shelley 7/22/20 Mark Shelley 7/22/20

Dear Internet 9: FINALE

I'm not going to kill myself. I still need to figure out who I'm going to be.

Zoë Wroten-Heinzmann 7/21/20 Zoë Wroten-Heinzmann 7/21/20

Gas Station

Editor Zoë Wroten-Heinzmann's debut work of fiction

Carly Grace Abrahams-Dematte 7/17/20 Carly Grace Abrahams-Dematte 7/17/20

Talking to Strangers

I don't think I was ever told never to talk to strangers.

Tim Palladino 7/14/20 Tim Palladino 7/14/20

Unleveled

While others saw only an animal, I saw a person to be revered.

Jennifer Tirrell 6/30/20 Jennifer Tirrell 6/30/20

Agape Love and the Great Blue

A blue heron, a Mary Oliver poem, and the salvific grace of the Creator

Kevin Smith 6/26/20 Kevin Smith 6/26/20

6/8

A new poem from debut writer Kevin Smith.

M.K. Ciley 6/23/20 M.K. Ciley 6/23/20

Walk in the Park

As an aged 22-year-old visits an old friend, everything has changed but the park.

Amelia Schwabe 6/19/20 Amelia Schwabe 6/19/20

I Was a Peach Blossom Baby

And I haven't been easy to raise.

Michael Higgins 6/16/20 Michael Higgins 6/16/20

Naming the Dragon

When was the last time you were able to pull a lawn chair out on the grass at night and watch for shooting stars, or hunt the fae in your imaginations?

Ross Streitburger 6/8/20 Ross Streitburger 6/8/20

Somebody Has to Lose

Do you believe in miracles?

M/U Staff 5/29/20 M/U Staff 5/29/20

The Most Dashing Man in the World Has Been Framed: A M/U Film Chat

The M/U Film Soiree gathers on Saul Bass' birthday to watch North by Northwest

Matei Alexandru 5/28/20 Matei Alexandru 5/28/20

A Game at Sundown

Thanks to my nursing home roommate, I felt young again - and death disappeared.

Mark Shelley 5/27/20 Mark Shelley 5/27/20

Dear Internet 2: The "Depressed Millennial" is the New Hippie

He couldn't accept that I preferred a frog to a dog

Ali Kreutz 5/22/20 Ali Kreutz 5/22/20

Spring Division

A new poem from the inestimable Ali Kreutz

Mark Shelley 5/20/20 Mark Shelley 5/20/20

Dear Internet 1: Confession Time

Introducing a new psychologically gripping fiction serial

William Mullen 5/18/20 William Mullen 5/18/20

Guerilla Golfing, Dr. Ron, and the Killer Mimosa

He's a cannabis bootlegger, a cannabis scientist...and plays the wildest golf game you've ever imagined

Sam Johnson 5/14/20 Sam Johnson 5/14/20

To Burn Clean

With an outlaw father on the brink of death, Johnny ponders the way the worm has turned - and stretches

Carly Grace Abrahams-Dematte 5/12/20 Carly Grace Abrahams-Dematte 5/12/20

Like Raisins on the Vine

As the pastoral scene unfolds, one world weaves into the other, and there's magic in the pomegranate seeds