The Rise, Fall, and Uncertain Future of Desert Center

On the history of the unincorporated community of Desert Center, an exit off Interstate 10 halfway between Los Angeles and Phoenix.

Published: Jul 10, 2021
Length: 9 minutes (2,483 words)

The Ditch

“I might be a bilingual journalist, the holder of a Master’s degree from the Sorbonne, but navigating the world remained something he could do that I could not.”

Published: Mar 29, 2021
Length: 10 minutes (2,578 words)

The Girl Who Chased Frogs

Journalist Lyra McKee submitted the first draft of this story, on the disappearance of a Honduran biologist named Meli Flores, just before McKee was killed in April while covering protests in Northern Ireland. “In some ways, she is a lost woman of troubled times, much like Lyra McKee. The SLR staff has edited and published this story in the wake of her death as a tribute to Lyra.”

Author: Lyra McKee
Published: May 29, 2019
Length: 13 minutes (3,435 words)