Favorite Web Stories: August 2025

Appeal by Seth Landman

It’s a poem, but I’m putting it here. Distance and apprehension and the kind of enjoying the world that leaves grass rash. Or blisters. Not a lot to say about a good poem that the poem doesn’t say.

Breaking Character by Marie López

Right amount of propulsive curiosity kept me going. Good idea and decent exploration for the length. I’d read a longer and slower expansion.

Another Brick That Wouldn't Melt by Akis Linardos

Students connected with bricks that refract their boundedness to a school. The aspects in the story that raise productive confusions keep getting swept into safe/certain ideas, but then reemerge and recycle. It’s a nice way of making rhythm.