Narratively Out Loud

After the loss of three loved ones, Jacqui McLoughlin was debilitated from grief. Then one moment at a Flaming Lips concert changed everything.


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In this time of Islamophobia and hatred, I needed to understand what made a white stranger open her home to us.


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Interned during WWI, circus entertainer Joseph Pilates used found materials and his fellow prisoners as his test lab, and imagined an exercise system that would captivate millions.


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As a kid, I thought I was too fat to dress up as my favorite cartoon characters. As an adult, I discovered a subculture that became one of the greatest joys of my life.


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The world’s most obsessive breakfast-food fans demonstrate just how far humans will go for the sweet taste of nostalgia.


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When I bumped into the other Davon Clark in college, it was funny. When friends confused our dating profiles, it was weird. When he got in trouble with the cops, my life started to fall apart.


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Sixty-six years before the infamous spilled McDonald’s coffee, May Donoghue drank a ginger beer with a dead mollusk in it and changed personal-injury law forever.


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Only in America does a friendly substitute teacher with a mountain of medical debt spend her nights serving summonses to other desperate people like me.


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Legions of phony psychics have twisted an ancient West African tradition into a billion-dollar business that cons desperate and lovelorn people. One band of volunteers is determined to stop them.


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How an audacious con man with fake ties to the pinnacles of the church ran an epic scheme and swindled those who trusted him most.


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