Grief Network

When pain and rage play out on — and are twisted by — Twitter.

Source: n+1
Published: Oct 11, 2018
Length: 24 minutes (6,005 words)

Can I Get a “McGangbang?” On the Weird World of Secret Menus

One eater wanders through the fast food frontier, examining the culture of menu hacking, to undertand why restaurants honor special requests that defy their reliance on standardization.

Source: LitHub
Published: Oct 11, 2018
Length: 9 minutes (2,409 words)

STET

Sarah Gailey’s short story about a mother whose child was killed by a self-driving car takes full advantage of the web’s ability to play with layouts and links, telling a story that requires the reader to interact with the page as the tale unfolds bit by brutal bit.

Published: Oct 15, 2018
Length: 6 minutes (1,556 words)

Why You Can’t Stop Looking at Other People’s Screens

In an age when more than 80 percent of the American population carry portable screens, we can’t help but look over.

Published: Oct 10, 2018
Length: 6 minutes (1,500 words)

Safe Houses

Around the country, a network of women like Mily Treviño-Sauceda and Valentina are helping Latina farm-workers escape domestic violence and abuses at work, learn their rights, and connect with social services. They believe that if immigrants can’t confront violence at home, they can never combat workplace discrimination.

Published: Oct 3, 2018
Length: 15 minutes (3,768 words)

The People Who Moved To Chernobyl

“After what you witness in war, radiation is nothing. It was a miracle we survived.”

Source: www.bbc.co.uk
Published: Oct 12, 2018
Length: 8 minutes (2,121 words)

Is There Such a Thing as Ballet That Doesn’t Hurt Women?

It’s a beautiful but demanding art form that traditionally accepts only a narrow range of body types and movements, and normalizes physical injury and the devaluing of women’s bodies.

Source: BuzzFeed
Published: Oct 12, 2018
Length: 12 minutes (3,015 words)

Horror Lives in the Body

“That fight-or-flight feeling, the body’s warning system, is what horror regularly exercises. It reminds you to stay alert because danger could present itself from the depths of any shadow, from behind any door, from the cab of any passing vehicle.”

Published: Oct 10, 2018
Length: 29 minutes (7,289 words)

What Stands In the Way of Native American Voters?

Thanks to historical disenfranchisement and discrimination, but also to a new state ID requirement — upheld by courts despite “all too real risk of grand-scale voter confusion” — thousands of Native Americans living in North Dakota won’t be able to vote this November.

Published: Oct 12, 2018
Length: 20 minutes (5,100 words)

Mold Eats World

As climate change chugs on and coastal cities endure hurricane flooding year after year, mold is flourishing in the hot, damp aftermath, bringing complaints of mold-induced illness. But, is mold really what’s making us sick? Even scientist Joan Bennett — who has dedicated her life to studying fungi — was unable to prove that the mold farm that invaded her home post-hurricane Katrina caused her headaches.

Source: Topic
Published: Oct 12, 2018
Length: 15 minutes (3,982 words)