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Posted inBooks, Fiction, First Chapters, Story
Getting Out the Message To Save Himself
In Don Waters’ short story “Full of Days,” a grieving Las Vegas man uses an anti-abortion billboard to justify his own pained existence.
Posted inEssays & Criticism, Nonfiction, Story
The Admission
Stacy Torres recalls the mixture of frustration and relief that came with checking herself into a New York City psych ward at the age of 20.
Posted inNonfiction
Catholic Churches Built Secret Astronomical Features Into Churches to Help Save Souls
After centuries of war, Catholicism and science reconciled over meridian lines.
Posted inQuotes
On Cancer: ‘Love wasn’t something I felt anymore. It was just something I did’
Nicole was thirty-four, and the doctor had been direct: “It’s everywhere,” he said.
Posted inEditor's Pick
On Mercy
An essay about the meaning of a death sentence, from a pediatric cancer ward to death row.
Posted inNonfiction, Story
The House Where You Live Forever
The reversible destiny of Madeline Gins.
Posted inEditor's Pick
Light at the End of the Scalpel
Visually distinguishing cancer from non-cancer can be the most difficult part of brain surgery. Alex O’Brien writes about how scorpions, Amazon.com and the legacy of a dying girl are helping provide new tools.
Posted inEditor's Pick
A Dying Young Woman’s Hope in Cryonics and a Future
A young woman’s last request before dying of cancer: Have her brain cryonically preserved so that neuroscience might one day reviver her mind.
Posted inDiscussions, Nonfiction, Quotes, Reading List
On Being Fat
Sara Benincasa’s essay “Why Am I So Fat?” was one of our top five reads last week, and with good reason — it was honest and cutting in all the right ways. It was brash and unapologetic and funny as hell (and also suggests that perhaps Fader was slightly premature in declaring, earlier this year, that […]
