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Lulled into a fog-induced limbo aboard an Indian train

ABOARD THE PRAYAGRAJ EXPRESS, India — We're late. Very late. A nine-hour overnight train trip has turned into 16, and we're still miles from nowhere. It's winter in northern India and that…
PUBLISHED: Jan. 31, 2013
LENGTH: 4 minutes (1136 words)

The Crossdressing Room

When I was six, my mother left a box of small garbage bags lying around. I found one, cut the bottom off, and used the cinch-tie at the top to make a small, crude dress. I put it on and looked at…
SOURCE:gawker.com
LENGTH: 17 minutes (4459 words)

How to Slowly Kill Yourself and Others in America: A Remembrance

I've had guns pulled on me by four people under Central Mississippi skies — once by a white undercover cop, once by a young brother trying to rob me for the leftovers of a weak work-study check, once…
SOURCE:gawker.com
LENGTH: 18 minutes (4724 words)
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