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The All Stars of David

It's an oy-so-humid mid-September Saturday afternoon in Jupiter, Florida, and the backup to the backup catcher, Nate Fish, just got his first hit for Team Israel, a single swatted over the…
LENGTH: 2 minutes (727 words)

The Crossing

The train that killed DeKai Amonrasi no longer exists. CSX Q612 out of New Orleans met its end at Tilford Rail Yard near Marietta Boulevard, a few miles west of Berkeley Heights on Atlanta’s…
PUBLISHED: Dec. 1, 2012
LENGTH: 4 minutes (1117 words)
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This Land Is My Land

Just before 10 a.m. on September 7, 2009, residents of Mill Creek heard gunshots. Some heard one shot; others as many as three. At the time it did not seem important. The sound was not uncommon along…
LENGTH: 7 minutes (1951 words)
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In the Shadows

The stranger arrived at the movie set late in the evening. Crew members preparing for a long night’s shoot were told the short and stocky, heavily bearded man had come to watch over one of the…
LENGTH: 20 minutes (5100 words)

“Why’s this so good?” No. 49: Wendy Brenner and the snake master

by Rebecca Burns | July 10, 2012 When the Winter 2005 issue of The Oxford American arrived, I flipped through the pages, glimpsed the reptilian close-ups accompanying Wendy Brenner’s profile…
PUBLISHED: July 11, 2012
LENGTH: 5 minutes (1440 words)

Women of Chi Omega Accident - Paige Williams

Survivors of March 26, 1987, gather at the Chi O house, January 2012. Back row, from left: Katie Rose Guyton, Mary Schiele Daniels Scanlon, Mary Helen Sandifer Thomas, Shannon Moore Dye, Snowe Wilks…
PUBLISHED: April 17, 2012
LENGTH: 5 minutes (1257 words)

Atlanta Magazine

"Every now and then I think about my own death, and I think about my own funeral, and I don't think of it in a morbid sense. Every now and then I ask myself, 'What is it that I would want said?' I'd…
LENGTH: 34 minutes (8614 words)

The Chief Complaint: Dr. Otis Brawley

For a man with such respectable bona fides—University of Chicago medical school graduate, trained in oncology at the National Cancer Institute, Emory professor, and currently chief medical…
LENGTH: 21 minutes (5432 words)

The Long Goodbye

Doug Monroe 1/1/2012 We thought daddy was going to die in 2001. He was staggering around the house in his underwear, gasping in pain, his eyes hollow, his face slashed from shaving with an…
LENGTH: 11 minutes (2904 words)
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