The world is ending. I’ve been stuck on that phrase, and different iterations thereof: the world is ending, the world wasn’t ending, the world felt as if it was ending for a split second and all the...

pittsburgh is a city of things underappreciated. my first trip downtown is spent wading through rare white pigeons & commonplace lanternflies. the former is tiptoed around like an exotic breed of lion...

STEP ONE: have a tenacious relationship with your mother. if you can remember a single childhood memory not tinted bittersweet, you’re doing it wrong. my mother loved to say she had to teach me how to...

After torrin a. greathouse   After learning that there are over 132 distinct phobias & still no word for the fear of saying goodbye,   I think of my grandfather, eyes closed,...

Now don’t tell my dad, because he’ll think I'm an idiot, but I realized very recently that he's not randomly starting my letters with a cute animal drawing — it's a pun: Deer Sabra. I just thought...

Scranton’s hist’ry of sound Speaks in my failure to say “t” Especially in the middle of words where it blends deep   As silt in the murky Lacky’s orange brown blood spurts From...

Every Sunday morning, I pull up a podcast on my phone, lace up my running shoes, and begin my trek up Lone Mountain — a heap of dirt, gravel and rock sitting isolated amid a suburban wasteland. Reaching...

my ex best friends had the same sized shoes they shared a shoe closet in their house on fifth and the fifth pair angel brought trevor wore too cause my ex best friends had the same sized shoes   trevor...

Product: Sony Handheld Camcorder  Rating: 0 stars Weak Memory: LOST ALL MY RECORDINGS Reviewed by Donna Linden    When a company advertises that its product has “ultra-reliable...

“Ten thousand years of Death King rule!” the crowd screamed and howled. Grumgux didn’t understand that. Obviously, he loved the Death King and would peel the skin from his soul in service of the...