{"id":66,"date":"2025-07-02T20:50:24","date_gmt":"2025-07-02T20:50:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ivylit.com\/?page_id=66"},"modified":"2025-11-02T16:16:42","modified_gmt":"2025-11-02T16:16:42","slug":"archive","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/ivylit.com\/index.php\/archive\/","title":{"rendered":"Archive"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-stackable-columns stk-block-columns stk-block stk-5e0b8a4\" data-block-id=\"5e0b8a4\"><div class=\"stk-row stk-inner-blocks has-text-align-center stk-block-content stk-content-align stk-5e0b8a4-column\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-stackable-column stk-block-column stk-column stk-block stk-d67d3cb\" data-v=\"4\" data-block-id=\"d67d3cb\"><style>.stk-d67d3cb-container{max-width:600px !important;min-width:auto !important;}<\/style><div class=\"stk-column-wrapper stk-block-column__content stk-container stk-d67d3cb-container stk--no-background stk--no-padding\"><div class=\"stk-block-content stk-inner-blocks stk-d67d3cb-inner-blocks\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-stackable-heading stk-block-heading stk-block-heading--v2 stk-block stk-c4c6b20\" id=\"previous-stories\" data-block-id=\"c4c6b20\"><h2 class=\"stk-block-heading__text\">Previous stories.<\/h2><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-stackable-posts stk-block-posts stk-block stk-f8ac658 is-style-default\" data-v=\"2\" data-block-id=\"f8ac658\"><style>.stk-f8ac658 {--stk-columns:1 !important;}.stk-f8ac658 .stk-img-wrapper{width:100% !important;}.stk-f8ac658 .stk-block-posts__readmore{color:var(--theme-palette-color-6, #272727) !important;}<\/style><div class=\"stk-inner-blocks stk-content-align stk-f8ac658-column\"><div class=\"stk-block-posts__items\"><div class=\"stk-block-posts__item\"><div class=\"stk-container stk-f8ac658-container stk--no-background stk--no-padding\"><article><h4 class=\"stk-block-posts__title\"><a href='https:\/\/ivylit.com\/index.php\/2025\/11\/27\/letter-from-the-editor-our-inaugural-issue\/'>Letter from the Editor: Our Inaugural Issue<\/a><\/h4><aside class=\"stk-block-posts__meta stk-subtitle\"><span>admin<\/span><span class=\"stk-block-posts__meta-sep\">\u00b7<\/span><time datetime=\"2025-11-27T16:57:39+00:00\">November 27, 2025<\/time><\/aside><div class=\"stk-block-posts__excerpt\"><p>Sometimes, things go exactly to plan. Other times, you get surprised. For example, sometimes, you have plans to launch the first run of your first tiny publishing project. And sometimes, right before you&#8217;re about to press the Publish button, your wife tells you that your baby is on their way, and the time that you&hellip;<\/p>\n<\/div><\/article><\/div><\/div><div class=\"stk-block-posts__item\"><div class=\"stk-container stk-f8ac658-container stk--no-background stk--no-padding\"><article><h4 class=\"stk-block-posts__title\"><a href='https:\/\/ivylit.com\/index.php\/2025\/11\/26\/the-greenhouse-effect\/'>The Greenhouse Effect<\/a><\/h4><aside class=\"stk-block-posts__meta stk-subtitle\"><span>admin<\/span><span class=\"stk-block-posts__meta-sep\">\u00b7<\/span><time datetime=\"2025-11-26T12:00:51+00:00\">November 26, 2025<\/time><\/aside><div class=\"stk-block-posts__excerpt\"><p>He started out growing matchbooks in his backyard when he was ten. Every year, and every subsequent science fair, his craft evolved until he was growing birdhouses, doghouses, toolsheds, and drive-through espresso stands. By the time he turned twenty, he could seed the earth with a shingle, a doorknob, an unbitted key, and grow a&hellip;<\/p>\n<\/div><\/article><\/div><\/div><div class=\"stk-block-posts__item\"><div class=\"stk-container stk-f8ac658-container stk--no-background stk--no-padding\"><article><h4 class=\"stk-block-posts__title\"><a href='https:\/\/ivylit.com\/index.php\/2025\/11\/26\/hope\/'>Hope<\/a><\/h4><aside class=\"stk-block-posts__meta stk-subtitle\"><span>admin<\/span><span class=\"stk-block-posts__meta-sep\">\u00b7<\/span><time datetime=\"2025-11-26T12:00:07+00:00\">November 26, 2025<\/time><\/aside><div class=\"stk-block-posts__excerpt\"><p>324 light years had come down to this moment. For the Centrax, it was only a small, but pivotal, part of their lives. Now, after decades of travel, they needed to uplift a species on the brink of faster-than-light travel. Scientist Mgrxlv used two of her eyes to observe the species before her. Disgusting creatures&hellip;<\/p>\n<\/div><\/article><\/div><\/div><div class=\"stk-block-posts__item\"><div class=\"stk-container stk-f8ac658-container stk--no-background stk--no-padding\"><article><h4 class=\"stk-block-posts__title\"><a href='https:\/\/ivylit.com\/index.php\/2025\/11\/26\/carrots\/'>Carrots<\/a><\/h4><aside class=\"stk-block-posts__meta stk-subtitle\"><span>admin<\/span><span class=\"stk-block-posts__meta-sep\">\u00b7<\/span><time datetime=\"2025-11-26T12:00:02+00:00\">November 26, 2025<\/time><\/aside><div class=\"stk-block-posts__excerpt\"><p>Fennel gently \u2014 and ineffectively \u2014 tried to urge the goat forward by offering it a fistful of carrots, but the goat had little interest in allowing Fennel to keep any scrap of his dignity. It balked at his attempt at bribery, stood its ground, and yelled. &#8220;Oh, come on,&#8221; Fennel complained, sweeping a clump&hellip;<\/p>\n<\/div><\/article><\/div><\/div><div class=\"stk-block-posts__item\"><div class=\"stk-container stk-f8ac658-container stk--no-background stk--no-padding\"><article><h4 class=\"stk-block-posts__title\"><a href='https:\/\/ivylit.com\/index.php\/2025\/11\/26\/a-pothos-once-freed\/'>A Pothos, Once Freed<\/a><\/h4><aside class=\"stk-block-posts__meta stk-subtitle\"><span>admin<\/span><span class=\"stk-block-posts__meta-sep\">\u00b7<\/span><time datetime=\"2025-11-26T12:00:00+00:00\">November 26, 2025<\/time><\/aside><div class=\"stk-block-posts__excerpt\"><p>In this universe, she kept the window closed. Her pothos plant pressed its leaves against the glass and stretched toward the sky as best it could. In a parallel universe, she perched her pothos plant on a wide-open windowsill. So, the pothos twined over a hundred feet up the fire escape and spread to cover&hellip;<\/p>\n<\/div><\/article><\/div><\/div><div class=\"stk-block-posts__item\"><div class=\"stk-container stk-f8ac658-container stk--no-background stk--no-padding\"><article><h4 class=\"stk-block-posts__title\"><a href='https:\/\/ivylit.com\/index.php\/2025\/11\/26\/de-extinction-survivor\/'>De-Extinction Survivor<\/a><\/h4><aside class=\"stk-block-posts__meta stk-subtitle\"><span>admin<\/span><span class=\"stk-block-posts__meta-sep\">\u00b7<\/span><time datetime=\"2025-11-26T12:00:00+00:00\">November 26, 2025<\/time><\/aside><div class=\"stk-block-posts__excerpt\"><p>My daughter traveled back from the future to save a dandelion. She dug it out gently and transplanted it in a jar of dirt. She tried to explain to me xeriscaping, biospheres. I was happy that she loved something so much, even if I didn\u2019t understand it myself. \u201cThe virus makes the petals bioluminescent,\u201d she&hellip;<\/p>\n<\/div><\/article><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"stk-inner-blocks\"><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div data-id=\"dbd77eeb\" class=\"wp-block-blocksy-query\"><div class=\"ct-query-template-default is-layout-flow\"><article class=\"wp-block-post is-layout-flow post-228 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-run-one\">\n<h2 class=\"ct-dynamic-data wp-elements-15ef05eba43a29c3d982a2fd5ad1d585\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ivylit.com\/index.php\/2025\/11\/27\/letter-from-the-editor-our-inaugural-issue\/\">Letter from the Editor: Our Inaugural Issue<\/a><\/h2>\n\n<div class=\"ct-dynamic-data wp-elements-7e633c711bb4c4f3f527a309d71b28ce\">November 27, 2025<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"ct-dynamic-data wp-elements-b422ffcec32fdcbc18c242288c10c5fa\"><p>Sometimes, things go exactly to plan. Other times, you get surprised. For example, sometimes, you have plans to launch the first run of your first tiny publishing project. And sometimes, right before you&#8217;re about to press the Publish button, your wife tells you that your baby is on their way,\u2026<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article><article class=\"wp-block-post is-layout-flow post-235 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-run-one category-story\">\n<h2 class=\"ct-dynamic-data wp-elements-15ef05eba43a29c3d982a2fd5ad1d585\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ivylit.com\/index.php\/2025\/11\/26\/the-greenhouse-effect\/\">The Greenhouse Effect<\/a><\/h2>\n\n<div class=\"ct-dynamic-data wp-elements-7e633c711bb4c4f3f527a309d71b28ce\">November 26, 2025<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"ct-dynamic-data wp-elements-b422ffcec32fdcbc18c242288c10c5fa\"><p>He started out growing matchbooks in his backyard when he was ten. 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