Playing in Public
Bianca van der MeulenA sandbox for feral creativity
| Platform |  | Pricing | Only free issues | Publishes | Weekly |
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Reluctant Weaver
She stares at the USB port on the back of the seat in front of her. A white cord sticks its tongue in the hole perfectly shaped to receive it. Anonymous, efficient, effective. Energy flows like magic from the plane to her phone.
I am not...
SEA to PHX
I arrive four hours early. I don’t understand where I am supposed to go. The counters are for people who either need assistance or fly first class, and I qualify for neither. I wander up to a kiosk and am told it doesn’t work. Just as well—...
Autobiographical Fiction Concepts
I wake up in the mood to write stories, but today is not a Creative Day; it is a Homeschool Day, which for this particular rotation of the earth means a blood-drawing, teacher-meeting, passport-application-submitting, ticket-booking, lunch-...
White Terry
Micah always drank the night before visiting his father. To be fair, he drank almost every night—which might account for why he never noticed that he drank a bit more and a bit earlier in anticipation of those encounters. It had never cause...
Finding flow in fragmented time
10am Friday, December 19, 2025
I’m sitting in the living room with a sedated cat on my lap and a restless six-year-old nearby. It is the first day of winter break—break from paid work and formal education, that is, but not caregiving. The...
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