Brother’s Keeper

Two brothers, two suicides:

“On the afternoon of Saturday, May 4, 2001, the nine-person cast of the Monadnock Regional High school production of Ordinary People gathered in the school auditorium in Swanzey, New Hampshire, for their first dress rehearsal. Opening night was only four days away, and the cast’s five boys and four girls were starting to feel the pressure. The mood was strained and occasionally hostile.

“The problem, most everyone agreed, was an angry Greg Kochman, who played the lead role of Conrad, a suicidal teenager coping with the death of his older brother. Then a junior at Monadnock, Greg was in one of his moods. ‘He was so angry that week, and that day was the worst of it,’ recalls Kristen Arrow, who played Conrad’s mother in the play. ‘He would just lash out at people for no reason. It was the first day that I had gotten really irritated at Greg.’

“Still, there was no denying that Greg could act. And on Saturday, the broad-shouldered, brown-haired 17-year-old was acting even better than usual.”

Published: Dec 23, 2012
Length: 23 minutes (5,804 words)

The Foreskin Renaissance

Tally is short for Tallywacker, a British nickname for penis. It is also the nom de Internet of a 55-year-old, heterosexual, happily married attorney in Tennessee who is at the vanguard of the foreskin restoration movement. With evangelical zest, he shares his story, and a sequential series of photographs of his penis, to thousands of private members and hundreds of daily visitors to his websites, RestoringForeskin.org and RestoringTally.com.

Published: Jan 18, 2011
Length: 14 minutes (3,707 words)

Marvin and Me

Brandt Miller’s grandmother has had her share of issues, but he never thought she’d mistake him for the family’s black sheep—a convicted child molester serving time with Bernie Madoff.

Published: Oct 6, 2010
Length: 6 minutes (1,571 words)