Narratively Out Loud

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October 31, 2019 No Sex in the Bunkbeds! Tales from the Most Intimate Sharing Economy Startup Yet
Privacy is rare, quiet hours are sacred, and don’t even think about hooking up. Meet the grown-ups who call the glorified dormitories of PodShare home.

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22 min
October 28, 2019 Diary of an Awkward Teenage Balloon Artist
Entertaining kids with inflated animals is tough—and when you’re a math-team nerd competing for gigs against your charismatic crush, it can blow up your entire life.

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15 min
October 21, 2019 The Secret Revenge of an Assault Survivor
At 11, Estella killed her rapist and fled to the U.S. Fifty years later, she’s revealing the story that made her the resilient woman she is.

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27 min
October 14, 2019 Confessions of a Fainting Man
My whole life, any time something has unnerved me — from high school math to childbirth class — my heart rate slows, the blood stops pumping to my brain, and I drop like a rock.

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15 min
October 14, 2019 The Day the Native Americans Drove the KKK Out of Town
The North Carolina Klan thought burning crosses would scare the Lumbee tribe out of Robeson County. That’s not how things went down.

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14 min
October 10, 2019 The Pen Pal Who Changed a President
When corruption threatened the administration of Chester A. Arthur, one ordinary woman put pen to paper. Julia Sand’s passionate letters caught his attention, and rewrote history.

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29 min
October 07, 2019 My Secret Life as an Underage Massage Therapist
As my hands addressed their aches and pains, my clients shared their fantasies and fears with 15-year-old-me. Little did they know, I was dealing with family drama of my own.

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19 min
October 03, 2019 The Diver Who Brings Up the Bodies
So many Indian farmers are killing themselves that bodies pile up at the end of one long canal. Gurbaksh Singh helps their families find closure.

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13 min
September 30, 2019 That Time I Conducted an Autopsy Without Any Medical Training
I thought it was hilarious when my friend in medical school snuck me into the exam room—until I was asked to lead the procedure.

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16 min
September 26, 2019 The Swift and Merciless Execution of Corrine Sykes
When a wealthy white woman turned up dead in 1944, Philadelphia wasted no time sending her black maid to the electric chair. But did anyone care about the truth?

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25 min