ORION

JANUARY 14. 2026

Elizabeth Bradfield answers the Orion Questionnaire

In which we get to know our favorite writers better by exploring the sacred and mundane.

The Mother of the Jersey Devil

When cryptid research turns personal

JANUARY 6. 2026

A New Year Update from Orion

"We’re in this together. We’re here for you, and with you. We can take care of each other. "

Sister Bear

On bears, oil, addiction, and empathy

DECEMBER 29. 2025

Guardians of the Sierra Madre

Blurring the boundaries between terror and tenderness

The Plan

"How much of the pleasure of making a garden is in the plan? "

Implied Mass

On facing the Pegasus problem logically.

Movies of Mystery and Monstrosity

What we're watching this winter

Platypus

On contradictions and cryptids

Lord God Bird

Does the ivory-billed woodpecker still exist?

Ghosts on the Range

Searching for evil and finding ourselves amidst a haunting pattern of cattle mutilations in the West

The Sand Trout’s Rise

"Legend says they slumber inches beneath the surface of arroyos and emerge to mate only when water flows. "

Sacred Decay

An artist renders beauty in death

On Not Baiting the Monster

Or "North America’s answer to Nessie"