Can We Ever Make It Suntory Time Again?

You can never drink the same whisky twice.

Source: Longreads
Published: Oct 29, 2019
Length: 23 minutes (5,939 words)

The Fight Over a Shitty Rock

Literally, it’s covered in guano. And what happens to it could dictate maritime laws and fishing rights worldwide.

Author: Greg Noone
Source: Hakai Magazine
Published: Oct 29, 2019
Length: 9 minutes (2,253 words)

Learning from Perimenopause and a Kpop Idol

Struggling with fluctuating hormones, Wendy Gan is inspired by the musician Mino to stop muting herself and return to writing.

Author: Wendy Gan
Source: Longreads
Published: Oct 30, 2019
Length: 18 minutes (4,746 words)

Can We Build a Better Women’s Prison?

Houston Chronicle criminal justice reporter Keri Blakinger — who once served 21 months of a 2½-year sentence for felony drug possession — visits a women’s prison near Austin, Texas, and considers the ways in which women’s prisons don’t take into consideration women’s particular needs. She speaks with those involved in planning a new $97 million building at the prison, which would be “at the vanguard of a growing focus within criminal justice reform known as gender-responsive corrections.”

This piece is included in the Washington Post Magazine‘s “The Prison Issue,” exclusively featuring writing, photography, and illustrations by those who are currently incarcerated, or were in the past.

Published: Oct 29, 2019
Length: 18 minutes (4,694 words)

Hysteria High: How Demons Destroyed a Florida School

“A true story of witchcraft, possession, and murder.”

Author: Jeff Maysh
Source: Medium
Published: Oct 28, 2019
Length: 24 minutes (6,151 words)

I Thought Wilderness Was A Place to Find Myself, Until I Spent Four Months Living In It

Leo Schwartz explores what he learned about nature during a back-breaking summer working on trails in the burned-out Oregon backcountry.

Source: BuzzFeed
Published: Oct 9, 2019
Length: 14 minutes (3,614 words)

The Ransomeware Superhero of Normal, Illinois

By day cancer survivor Michael Gillespie — an unassuming man who lives in Normal, Illinois, along with eight cats and his wife — works at a little computer repair shop called Nerds on Call. By night he’s a ransomeware-busting superhero to scores of people whose computers have been taken over by bad guys trying to exploit their precious documents, data, and photos for money.

Source: ProPublica
Published: Oct 28, 2019
Length: 17 minutes (4,431 words)

Sea Gulls Love In-N-Out. But Their Diet May Be Changing Their Channel Islands Home

“Usually it’s humans who are responsible for polluting natural ecosystems. But on Anacapa and Santa Barbara islands, gulls appear to be the ones spoiling the wild habitat with processed food and puked-up trash.”

Published: Oct 22, 2019
Length: 6 minutes (1,637 words)

The Strange Story of Richard Wright’s Lost Crime Novel, Savage Holiday

“In 1954, at the height of his fame, Wright published a thriller with a white psychotic hero. The literary world did not approve.”

Source: CrimeReads
Published: Oct 23, 2019
Length: 15 minutes (3,754 words)

The Last Police Officer

In 2005, the only public safety officer in Russian Mission, a village of 340 people in Alaska, committed suicide. Russian Mission hasn’t had a “permanent, certified police officer” since Simeon Askoak died.

Published: Oct 24, 2019
Length: 20 minutes (5,017 words)