Byline: Katie Duggan

Telescoping Clothing

Musings on the clothes we wear, and how they alter us.

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Elevators

“Someone said this to me the other day: People always seem to press the elevator button again even if someone else has already pressed it.”

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8 Vignettes on Emotion

Trying to put the background noise on mute.

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Schrödinger’s Lottery

“Maybe it was the cheap thrill of furiously scratching them with a quarter, and seeing all those shimmery silver shavings pile up.”

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I Still Feel Like I Am Dead

“I wonder if he dreams at all, at this point. I hope his dreams are nice.”

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Telescoping Fear

We asked our stable of unstable writers to reflect on fear — personal, conceptual, metaphysical. They started with 300 words and narrowed focus and word count, by halves.

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Isle of Dogs review

“In any case, it is left up to the viewer to not get too lost in the dazzling visual spectacle of the film, and be sure to consider that despite the immaculate attention to detail, some details might still have been rendered invisible.”

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Freshman Reflections

This time last year I was in the Indian Himalayas, spending my days basking in solitude, seeking the serene, the isolated. Before, I had always preferred interaction to isolation. I thrived off of the social, was known as an extrovert. … Read More

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Telescoping Youth

Memories may fade as distance grows wider between ourselves and our young selves, but one thing remains constant: if we dig down deep into the recesses of our experiences, hold light up to the seeds of our current moment, brush off the dust, we might find something worth writing about.

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Telescoping Morning

“In the succeeding entries, we telescope our mornings by recounting and recasting. Each succeeding morning of a series is composed in exactly half the number of words of the previous. Diminish with us below.”

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The Women of the Woody Allen Archives

Interrogating Woody Allen’s presentation of women, and defensive disclaimers that his work is merely satirical fiction.

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Telescoping Faith

In the succeeding entries, we telescope “faith,” a word with a variety of connotations. Join us in considering “faith,” its soaring capacities, and its particular and personal ones.

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