catapult magazine

Items tagged longing

• Needing home

  Will a place to lay my head ever materialize?

• The mouse that roared

  A sixth grade boy stumbles upon mystique on the middle school stage.

• All tensed up with someplace to go

  What to do when the system's getting you down...even in your sleep.

• Always

  A short story about a girl in the hospital and her twin in the mirror.

• An ode to the bookmark

  On the interaction between the stories on the page and the stories stuck between them.

• Home is (not always) where the heart is

  A mother reflects on her family's longing for a better home.

• Wait for it

  An impending job change prompts questions about future expectations.

• Waving back

  On the struggle to discover deep connections after college.

• The thirty-year itch

  On the tangle of questions and desires at the point of church transition.

• Celebrate me home

  On the sounds of moving from sleeping to waking.

• Dragon’s Milk

  On a couple of beers and a conversation between friends.

• Super Size my sanctification, please

  Sometimes, life is like a shamrock shake.

• Why I love goals

  A reflection on being happy, but discontent.

• Vanya

  A reflection on the concerns of a man and a woman of the Ratwa Bhil tribe in central India.

• The Pendleton coat

  Pondering lost connections, of both the human and the wooly, plaid kind.

• The wildflower way

  Fundraising anti-advice from a kid who always just ate the chocolate bars herself.

• Quitting my dream

  To Africa and back again.

• Being known

  Don’t let your heart go cheap.

• What is art?

  High school creative writing students respond to the catapult prompt.