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Off Assignment is a place for narrative writing about journeys—broadly defined.

Find our essays in book form in our anthology, Letter to a Stranger: Essays to the Ones Who Haunt Us.

LETTER TO A STRANGER

Missives to unshakeable passersby

WHAT I DIDN’T SAY

The stories behind the stories

UNDER THE INFLUENCE

The interplay between art and place

GOODBYE TO THAT PLACE

Farewells to unforgettable places

NO EQUIVALENT

Musings on untranslatable words

WITCHING HOUR

Ambient portraits of places at specific times