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Motif
8+ hour, 31+ min ago (134+ words) Motif'Orion Magazine TILL, PLANT, GROW, HARVEST, REPEAT: the perennial farm cycle sustains and connects us all (no matter how far removed from the process we might be). For those who choose such work, the satisfaction can run deep; for those…...
No Angel
8+ hour, 30+ min ago (17+ words) No Angel'Orion Magazine Want to keep reading? Subscribe and help keep Orion independent, nonprofit, and ad-free....
Tenderness We May Later Exchange
8+ hour, 31+ min ago (20+ words) Tenderness We May Later Exchange'Orion Magazine Want to keep reading? Subscribe and help keep Orion independent, nonprofit, and ad-free....
You Betta Work
8+ hour, 31+ min ago (18+ words) You Betta Work'Orion Magazine Want to keep reading? Subscribe and help keep Orion independent, nonprofit, and ad-free....
Woman and Man vs. Nature
3+ week, 6+ day ago (306+ words) I'm not sure he could have done it alone, the way your stranded Marguerite does in Isola. Initially Marguerite is marooned with her lover Auguste and her nurse Damienne. But when they die she is left entirely alone and must…...
What is Environmental (In)Justice?
1+ mon, 3+ day ago (73+ words) What is Environmental (In)Justice?Orion Magazine Bring home your copy today! Excerpted from A Better World Is Possible: Global Youth Confront the Climate Crisis by Meera Subramanian and Danica Novgorodoff, copyright 2026, used by permission of First Second Books. This…...
What It Should Mean to Be American
1+ mon, 2+ week ago (489+ words) Minneapolis, Minnesota January 30, 2026. Fibonacci Blue / Wikimedia Commons Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit: There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect. "Frank Wilhout in…...
Sacred Decay
3+ mon, 1+ week ago (548+ words) LAUREN MARX is an artist based in St. Louis, Missouri who creates intricate watercolor artworks that delve into themes of nature, death, and mythology. Her detailed compositions often feature animals intertwined with flora and fungi, exploring the cycles of life…...
Double Take
3+ mon, 1+ week ago (1833+ words) Folks wanted Dad to study Bigfoot, but he wasn't that interested in animals you never see." son of naturalist Dr. George Schaller BIGFOOT ISN'T REAL, but black bears are'that's the subtext of a recent study by Dr. Floe Foxon mapping…...
Troubled Water
3+ mon, 1+ week ago (371+ words) A CATFISH WITH THREE EYES lived in the Gowanus Canal. I can say this with confidence because I have seen the evidence. The catfish was shiny and pitch-dark. After a fisherman hooked it and reeled it out of the brackish…...