All Dressed Up: Five Stories About Style

Style has no limits. Wear socks with sandals. Dress as a different character every day. Admire your reflection in the subway windows. Here are five stories about our connection with the clothes we wear.

Source: Longreads
Published: Apr 5, 2015

The Rookie and the Zetas

How the Feds took down a drug cartel’s horse-racing empire.

Author: Joe Tone
Source: Dallas Observer
Published: Apr 1, 2015
Length: 27 minutes (6,940 words)

Escape from Baghdad!: Saad Hossain’s New Satire of the Iraq War

In his debut, Saad Hossain brings a much-needed cynicism to our literature of the Iraq War. An absurdist protest novel in the vein of Kurt Vonnegut’s Slaughterhouse 5 or Joseph Heller’s Catch-22, Escape from Baghdad! relentlessly focuses the reader’s attention on the folly of war.

Source: Unnamed Press
Published: Apr 3, 2015
Length: 25 minutes (6,311 words)

The Great Cocaine Treasure Hunt

A man finds a million dollars’ worth of cocaine washed up on a beach and buries it. A group goes in search of it years later.

Source: GQ
Published: Mar 31, 2015
Length: 28 minutes (7,206 words)

This Is How We Lose Them

What can be done about Cincinnati’s woeful infant mortality rate?

Published: Apr 1, 2015
Length: 26 minutes (6,550 words)

The Answer Is Never

Rewriting the false narrative of childlessness.

Source: Longreads
Published: Apr 2, 2015
Length: 15 minutes (3,886 words)

No Man’s Land

A story about our broken immigration system. Conflicting state and federal laws have prevented José Espino-Paez—and thousands like him—from becoming legal residents.

Source: 5280 Magazine
Published: Apr 1, 2015
Length: 35 minutes (8,865 words)

Slumber Party!

The disruptors have found their latest target—the $14 billion mattress industry. Can the new crowd of startups successfully turn the most utilitarian of purchases into a “quirky, shareable adventure”?

Source: BuzzFeed
Published: Mar 31, 2015
Length: 14 minutes (3,590 words)

Buried Alive in a Grain Silo

Four years ago, Erika Hayasaki learned about the death of two young men in a corn grain bin accident in the Midwest. Over the next two years, while pregnant and later with her then-six-month-year-old daughter and husband in tow, she left her life in Los Angeles to visit Mount Carroll, Illinois, population 1,700, to capture the story. The following is an excerpt from Hayasaki’s story, Drowned By Corn, which describes the lives of the young workers before the accident.

Source: Amazon
Published: Dec 1, 2014
Length: 10 minutes (2,554 words)

Defending Darwin

What it’s like to teach evolution at the University of Kentucky.

Source: Orion Magazine
Published: Apr 1, 2015
Length: 15 minutes (3,791 words)