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I Had a Mushroom Shake in Thailand and All I Got Was This Stupid CD

I Had a Mushroom Shake in Thailand and All I Got Was This Stupid CD

February 10, 2021
by Pat Boxall
Thailand Yarns, Yarns

I can’t even show you the CD. Why? Because I threw that five-track motherfucker straight into the Chao Phraya River, Bangkok’s crystal clear aquatic thoroughfare….

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Grace, If You’re Reading This, You Owe Us a Fucking Beer

Grace, If You’re Reading This, You Owe Us a Fucking Beer

February 7, 2021
by Annie Caughey
Germany Yarns, Yarns

“Prost!” Our steins clunk; beer spills over the side and splashes onto my cheap 50-euro dirndl — but I’m too sloppy to notice. It’s Oktoberfest…

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Taking Lessons from Day of the Dead, Mixe Style

Taking Lessons from Day of the Dead, Mixe Style

January 5, 2021
by Kirsty Le Juge
Mexico Yarns, Yarns

Staring down the shot glass of yet another pre-10am mezcal, I push any thoughts of What about my life productivity? aside and focus on what’s happening…

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The Overnight Train To The North Pole

The Overnight Train To The North Pole

December 25, 2020
by Natalie Blazevski
Yarns

If you were to find yourself in streets of Helsinki in the midst of a Finnish winter, don’t be surprised by a shower of snow…

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The Writer's Routine

The Writer’s Routine

November 17, 2020
by Jada De Luca
Japan Yarns, Yarns

Six o’clock. Greeting her in the dim light, the mirror on the far wall can only fit a proportionate view of her features. It is…

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One More Jewel in the Corona: On Doing Exchange in the US in 2020

One More Jewel in the Corona: On Doing Exchange in the US in 2020

November 17, 2020
by Shifra Power
USA Yarns, Yarns

This year, I cast aside the dirt-encrusted vouchers for disappointment and bought the VIP Backstage Experience for the United States 2020. In late August, I…

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How Backpacking Taught Me to Embrace the Unexpected

How Backpacking Taught Me to Embrace the Unexpected

November 17, 2020
by Caitlin Brown
Thailand Yarns, Yarns

It was the night before the Thai new year festival of Songkran, and we were spending it in the luggage hold of a bus. We…

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The Day I Fell in Love With a Flat Earther

The Day I Fell in Love With a Flat Earther

November 10, 2020
by Oscar Long
Yarns

“Tell me something I don’t know,” she said. We were drinking champagne from the bottle, wearing only bathrobes in the suite of a 19th-century estate…

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Yakuza, Spoiled Carpets and Big Cash -- The World of a Gaijin Hostess in Tokyo

Yakuza, Spoiled Carpets and Big Cash — The World of a Gaijin Hostess in Tokyo

October 5, 2020
by Eleanor Wilson
Features

“I don’t want to do this job for that long. I don’t want to do it now if I’m honest. Who wants to sit around…

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I Got High With My Parents in Kenya (and They Didn’t Know)

I Got High With My Parents in Kenya (and They Didn’t Know)

September 14, 2020
by Gaia Lamperti
Yarns

Cozmoz arrived with his usual perky walk, wearing flip flops that belonged to two different pairs and red plastic shades lifted over his head. He…

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Counting the Minutes

Counting the Minutes

August 10, 2020
by Tasha May
Yarns

Nothing symbolises Western society – particularly, its notion of time as a commodity for sale – better than the taxi driver’s meter. As a child,…

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The Halloween Puja

The Halloween Puja

July 27, 2020
by Alex Tzelnic
India Yarns, Yarns

I’m going to be a boxer. I walk to town and ask my tailor to make me a baby blue bathrobe with a hood. This…

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