Every Living Creature

When a massive Caribbean volcano erupts, the island’s residents flee, leaving their beloved animals behind. As pets and livestock are engulfed in ash and penned in by lava, waiting to perish, three brave souls risk death and evade the law to save every last one. A modern-day Noah’s Ark.

Published: Mar 26, 2019
Length: 27 minutes (6,800 words)

The Good Bad Wives of Ozark and House of Cards

What if a TV antihero and his wife were partners instead of rivals? Sara Fredman’s second installment in this series explores the marriages and antihero teams in Netflix’s Ozark and House of Cards.

Source: Longreads
Published: Mar 28, 2019
Length: 12 minutes (3,057 words)

Beauty Tips From My Dead Sister

“You can design your face for years, paint it like an artist, but in death they’ll mess up your makeup. Wipe off that garish mask with damp cotton balls. Redo my look: Shadow my eyes, gloss my lips, apply some highlights and shimmer. My face will be too thin, the skin stripped of glow; the eyes will look snuffed out. Make it pretty enough to say goodbye to.”

Source: BuzzFeed
Published: Mar 27, 2019
Length: 9 minutes (2,498 words)

The Human Costs of Kamala Harris’s War on Truancy

The “progressive prosecutor” wanted to transform how California responded to students missing school. Parents like Cheree Peoples wound up paying the price.
Source: HuffPost
Published: Mar 27, 2019
Length: 20 minutes (5,200 words)

Columbine Survivors Talk About the Wounds That Won’t Heal

Sometimes it feels like it happened yesterday. Other times it’s as if it happened to someone else. She has told the story of that day so many times now that it doesn’t even feel like it’s her story anymore. It’s just something she knows, something she might have picked up anywhere, a scrap of ancient history or pop trivia. I’ll take American Mass Shootings for a thousand, Alex.

Source: Westword
Published: Mar 19, 2019
Length: 27 minutes (6,900 words)

On Black Difficulty

“There are many ways to be “difficult” in this world: stubborn, demanding, inconvenient, complex, troublesome, baffling, illegible. Black womanhood is where they overlap.”

Source: Slate
Published: Mar 26, 2019
Length: 7 minutes (1,885 words)

Berlin’s Radical Housing Activists Aren’t Afraid of Expropriations

“It’s a positive sign that our enemies are scared…Unfortunately, however, we are not dealing here with the return of socialism.”

Source: The Nation
Published: Mar 27, 2019
Length: 8 minutes (2,237 words)

On the Trail of the Robocall King

One man; some auto-dialing software; 96,758,223 illegal robocalls.

Source: Wired
Published: Mar 25, 2019
Length: 19 minutes (4,820 words)

The Leaves, They Never Stop Falling

A personal essay in which Colin Dickey remembers a departed friend and a tree that won’t die.

Source: Longreads
Published: Mar 27, 2019
Length: 15 minutes (3,788 words)

When Mountains Were Ugly

The lair of witches and ghouls before they became an Instagrammer’s delight, mountains are where we go to find a little distance, a little fear, a little magic.

Source: Hazlitt
Published: Mar 12, 2019
Length: 11 minutes (2,961 words)