Based on the Past-Ten.com website created and launched by executive editor Donald Quist in 2017, The Past Ten features a wide range of responses from parenthood, to family issues, professional development, gender and sexual identity, addiction, recovery, illness, natural disasters, war, and more, and are from bestselling writers like Brandon Taylor and Heather Gudenkauf, up-and-coming writers, performers, critics, teachers, and everyday people, all answering the same question, where were you on this day ten years ago?