Readers’ Choice: 433’s Ten Most Read
To celebrate the publication of our hundredth feature, we’re looking back on some of the highlights. The following is a list of the top ten most popular features we’ve published, so far, based on traffic.
Melissa Frias
“you noticed that guy in your class just stopped joining the zoom calls that one week death tolls were really high, but your professor still calls his name when he takes attendance…”
Jeremy Trager
“He looked at me through matted white strings of hair, his eyes reddened and distant. The corner of his mouth quivered. I could not discern whether he was attempting to smile or trying not to cry.”
Casey Dawson
“The most normal sensations of bodily living were enough to convince me that my own body was a trap. What could I do with all of this me when there were no other witnesses?”
Stephanie Gaitán
“I almost cry. I’ve gotten good at holding it back. I don’t think this is something to be proud of.”
Michelle Valladares
“Once we could tell bad jokes
over the copy machine
Once upon a time.”
Nick Vidal
“My mom enters the living room and finds me self-loathing on the couch. She can read my thoughts on my face. She stands there smiling until I finally look up and notice her. ‘Figure it out,’ she says, and exits laughing.”
Ashley Venus Vaello
“I try to remember the sounds and smells of my neighborhood: the mixed aromas of arroz con habichuelas and marijuana saturating the hallways around 5:00 p.m. Now all I smell is Lysol and bleach.”
Gabriel Noel
“This image of terror, and the thoughts of terror that circled it, brought back to me the conviction that here I was witnessing another manifestation of the tragedy of the United States.”
Jaray Hunt
“I can’t breathe-
underground air feels heavy of steel dust
blackness on the walls, you see, is not me-”
Dr. Regina Bernard
“It’s becoming murky. The names, the incidents, the actual meaning of our liberties and our injustices and our existences, all muddled.”
