Waiting for the rising
Editor’s note: Due to server issues this week, our throwback piece from Topology’s predecessor, catapult magazine, is being published on Friday. In this essay from…
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Suspicious origins
I’ve sampled enough random plants in the woods to learn an important lesson: if it doesn’t taste good, don’t eat it. Just a small…
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Hard at play
It’s a Sunday morning in late spring. Our cat lounges in the sun by the open window, where the joyous prelude of bird chatter…
Read MoreCall for submissions: Roots
July will be our last issue before our annual August publishing break, and the theme is “Roots.” You have about three weeks to consider…
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Do not enter
Editor’s note: Each Thursday, we feature a throwback piece from Topology’s predecessor, catapult magazine. In this essay from 2010, I reflected on what it would…
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“A border always conveys meaning.”
Borders mark the contours of nations, states, even cities, defining them by separating them from all others. A border can be natural—an ocean, a…
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The stories we don’t tell
“Don’t buy a house in Second Ward.” Maybe I shouldn’t have been surprised when a pastor who was new to our community told me…
Read MoreCall for submissions: Play
You haven’t heard from us for a little while and here’s why: because of a technical glitch, our editors were not receiving submissions. When…
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Rocky River Series: Bridge
Three Rivers, Michigan (March 2017) One of the reasons I love living in downtown Three Rivers is that I get to experience the pleasures…
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Politics and the lies we tell about grief
When we do not take grief seriously—our own and another’s—but merely cover its wounds with a garish fairy tale of winking soldiers cheering from…
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