Archive - Here's Where The Story Ends by Daniel Nester

Variations on Variations on Grief

Maybe that’s what grief is: a fragment, a dangling modifier looking for a subject.

Jun 14 •

May 2025

Process Notes: Moments of Being (Sort Of)

From the notebook: the writing grift, ghost signs, DNA, and a quiz.

May 31 •

April 2025

Once More to the Campus Center

I stood back. She dove in. That’s the whole story.

Apr 30 •

March 2025

Never Going Back to My Old School

The panel went fine, except for the part where I dropped an F-bomb. On my love for teaching, the Peter Elbow of it all, and saying the quiet parts out…

Mar 30 •

The Joke That Will Outlive Our Entire Family

Our mom’s gravestone is a punchline, and she’d love it.

Mar 1 •

February 2025

Fuck It, I’m Leaving Early

Navigating life after teaching—one awkward crowd, botched conversation, and early exit at a time.

Feb 7 •

January 2025

Collecting My Failures

I am no longer the goofy professor with graphic t-shirts and sport jackets. I’m someone who has empty shelves in his basement.

Jan 13 •

December 2024

A Die Hard Epiphany

If I waited for the skies to part to figure this out, I’d still be waiting. And I have presents to put under the tree.

Dec 24, 2024 •

November 2024

I Miss My Students Already

At first, upstate students they seemed like aliens. By the last ten years, they reminded me of my kids.

Nov 23, 2024 •

October 2024

On Corian Countertops and Dropping the Kayfabe Act

I know two things aren’t metaphors for each other. For now, I'll just write them in the same sentence, let them lie next to each other.

Oct 6, 2024 •

September 2024

What We Talk About When We Talk About Towns and Gowns

Do I regret bringing all these writers to campus? No. I feel gratitude.

Sep 25, 2024 •

August 2024

Don't Make Me Steal My Own F$%^ing Office Signs

Just give them to me, fair and square.

Aug 31, 2024 •

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