catapult magazine

Items tagged story

• A seed sprouts

  A letter to the Lorax, who speaks for the trees.

• Finding real life on The Loneliest Planet

  A review of Julia Loktev’s 2012 film about the journey of an engaged couple.

• Writing Maleek: A prayer

  The road to authoring a children’s book about hunger.

• Beware of book lust

  Reflecting on the ways books demand our lives.

• Facts and fictions

  On following the breadcrumbs of truth through the stories of childhood.

• Come further in, come further up!

  C.S. Lewis Chronicles of Narnia offer a glimpse of the world to come.

• A book that bites

  When a book about vampires overlaps with real life.

• Sherman’s gift

  A pumpkin pie recipe -- and a life -- to remember.

• Authentic authority

  Running toward the truth that resonates deep within.

• A car story

  Around the world 11 times in a 2000 Volkswagen Jetta TDI.

• “Sacred” space, desecration and reconciliation

  16 theses toward understanding sacred space in the context of the biblical narrative.

• The stories of Christmas

  On carrying a family tradition beyond childhood.

• Emotional wreck

  Your kids were supposed to have perfect parents.  You were supposed to have perfect kids.  You’re all plain out of luck.

• Why I Sundance

  Hint: it’s about more than just stalking celebrities (with a little of that, too).

• A new normal

  Ten things I’ve learned about trauma.

• Comfort films

  Ten movies worth a second look.

• Being known

  Don’t let your heart go cheap.

• What is art?

  High school creative writing students respond to the catapult prompt.

• Reimagining the picture

  Making art as a practice for creating a new family.

• Beyond my ability

  The journey toward words as a chosen medium.

• Gossip column

  The value of local news as a lens for seeing the world.

• Places are people, too

  What can you say when home gets down on one knee?

• Staging hurt and hope

  Albany Park Theater Project’s God’s Work shows us the kind of world we live in.

• Treasures in my tin

  On the things we hold dear, and the things that lose their luster between generations.

• Sharing the abundance

  More than just china handed down through the generations.

• A neverending story

  Forget grandma’s brooch -- what do you do when you inherit a 27,000 square foot building?