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ME TODAY

ME TODAY

ME TODAY: My plan was to move west to east through the city

  • Brian Hioe
Published on Jan 5, 2023 12:37PM EST

ME TODAY: “This is how poor people watch football, babe.”

  • Deborah Germaine Augustin
Published on Jan 3, 2023 11:56AM EST

ME TODAY: There are people and goods, constantly moving all around you

  • Abdullah Shihipar
Published on Dec 28, 2022 9:49PM EST

ME TODAY: The next time we touch.

  • Laura June
Published on Dec 19, 2022 9:15PM EST
A photo of Eddie Vedder playing guitar, cropped to just the guitar and his hands

ME TODAY: I couldn’t imagine our cat actually darting out the door, past the roaring shop-vac.

  • Tom Scocca
Published on Dec 13, 2022 8:01PM EST
A plant with changing leaf colors; red, yellow and green

ME TODAY: The inside of my brain looks and feels not entirely unlike the interior of this shop.

  • Maria Bustillos
Published on Dec 2, 2022 1:43PM EST
Three old playing cards, from right to left: an ace of spades, reading JOHN WADDINGTON LTD., LEEDS & LONDON, a back side reading BELL'S "Afore ye go," Issued by ARTHUR BELL & SONS LTD, PERTH SCOTLAND, with an image of a bearded older man in a llt staning in a castle doorway, holding a bottle, with a dog at his side, flanked by the shadows to two people, and the third card is a JOKER

ME TODAY: “Leave this place and go to Sicily,” he whispered, though there was no one else around.

  • Sharanya Deepak
Published on Nov 30, 2022 7:01PM EST

ME TODAY: A flower sat facedown on the sidewalk. I flipped it over for someone else to find.

  • Shirley Wang
Published on Nov 29, 2022 6:52PM EST

The taste Paxlovid leaves on the breath is bitter, like a city burning.

  • Preeti Kaur Rajpal
Published on Nov 28, 2022 7:05PM EST
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