Virgin Ears Janis Joplin, Pearl When my mother left my father and I to join a cult, I was 18 months old. My father collected all…
The King Dork Code Frank Portman Goes Back to High School by Juliet Linderman illustration by Molly Crabapple WHEN I WAS 13, I was a…
Wordish (wûrdish) adj. ijack vt. to steal an iPod, as in a holdup, after identifying the device by its factory-issued white earbuds I bought these…
Album Length Monno, Error by Geraldine Kim illustration by Emma Spertus I WANTED TO listen to an album I had never heard of before from…
Serious Listening How I Created an Army of Music Writers by Kaya Oakes illustration by Nicole Neditch THE REOCCURRING ANXIETY nightmare I have the night…
Hey Bartender! Rebel Yell by Lee Skirboll illustration by Jamie Tanner “HEY!” BUBBY SAYS, hoisting his rubbery bulk onto a barstool. “What does a fag…
Kaya wants to thank everyone who’s worked on and read KS over the years, the Oakes family for literary DNA and support, the Telegraph Stories…
Psych Out by Sophie Beck illustration by Molly Crabapple So there’s this psychic. And he is the subject of animated conversation one afternoon at my…
Ambulatory Poesy Altered States by Danielle Henderson illustration by Nancy Bach I left in a snowstorm. Whiteout conditions: Skating carefully through the smooth white flakes,…
Foods We Miss Grandma’s Kringla by Jennie Gruber My mom will be the first to tell you her mother wasn’t the most exciting of cooks.…