On "A Study of the Circular Velocity of a Shooting Star" by Morgan von Ancken (2902 words) ****

This piece will keep us interested with its energetic language, an energy the mirrors its subject matter--the shooting star--which comes into our atmosphere like some gift thrown at us from above and, in this case, dips into the water, where there's this mate, this perfect mate, waiting for us, and we share this moment, and it's fantastic because we both know what this moment means having shared it like this, with no one else, but the real kicker is that after all of this, it just keeps going and going and going and going on even after we've read this piece here at Diagram, this piece . . .