Riley Nichols

What does it mean to be creative? What makes something a creative endeavor? Is everything a creative endeavor?

Chance could have faced anywhere else, the fog rolling out to sea, the waning moon or maybe even just toward nothing at all, I walked right past his organs baking on the asphalt with a vacuum in my chest.

Rocks spend much of their time muttering inwardly when things bump into them. They take careers as linguists, English teachers and mathematicians. They write lists of rules and expect others to follow them.

Backpacks lay in corners, outcast / Overflowing laundry baskets try to explain the rules / The game they came to play is nearly invisible

We tell stories that never do the trick. The events of my day are articulable, but the meaning of a day is always greater than its constituent moments.

There was a sticker on the wall. It stared innocuously at me from above the toilet with the message: “I’m Back. Please Find Me” and a library call number.

The entire walk had been an irrational one: a journey justified by ends we both knew weren’t real. Or perhaps the journey had always justified itself.

An interview with TreaH Cleaves became more than just an article on the unhoused populations of Berkeley after I stopped and listened.