I Never Met My Brother
I have a brother. I never met him. His name is Mark. He’s the same age as I am. Mark only lived thirty miles away from me the entire time we were...
View ArticleMonsters
When I was seven, I built plastic models, scaled military replicas made by Revel, Taiko, and other Japanese or American or German brands with characters, English words, and other languages and...
View ArticleSubmerged
In the tank, you watch the whale circle behind you. You tilt your head around trying to follow him in the water. Yellow streams of sunlight cascade over the black and white torpedo that is coming at...
View ArticleFreaks
Born in 1890, Tod Browning, one of the first horror genre directors, began his career during the silent film era. “He was the John Carpenter of his day,” claims Dr. William Dodson, Professor of...
View ArticleFrom Bad Boy to Skinny Jeans: Dracula on the Runway
To celebrate the upcoming publication of Ryan Britt’s debut collection, Luke Skywalker Can’t Read and Other Geeky Truths—out tomorrow from Plume Books—we are hosting a “Week of Ryan Britt” here at...
View ArticleWhat Some Call Soccer is Called Football and Calcio and Life
The 2015 MLS Cup game is this Sunday, the final match-up of a long, grueling U.S. soccer season. To celebrate, an essay by Story co-founding editor Vito Grippi about the narratives soccer offered him...
View ArticleMonsters and the Moral Imagination
Monsters are on the rise. People can’t seem to get enough of vampires lately, the giant monsters (Kaiju) are resurfacing, and zombies have a new lease on life. The reasons for this increased monster...
View ArticleMonsters and the Ghosts of PubMed
Sarah McCord can’t quite remember when she discovered that PubMed was still calling conjoined twins “monsters.” She does, however, remember being startled. “It bothered me,” she wrote to me, “because...
View ArticleAt the Jazz Kissa
Like the cramped sushi bar I found in Kyoto packed with friendly businessmen and laughing smokers, and the independent Tokyo record store I found filled with collectible blues and jazz, I stumbled on...
View ArticlePicture City
48 miles northwest In January of 2005 a mudslide covered the beachside town of La Conchita. Known as punta until 1925, it was founded in the late 19th century by men working on the South Pacific...
View ArticleBinaries & Borders
“When we change languages, we are altering ourselves, and at the same time giving up parts of ourselves. And here, now, I feel like I am nearly lost.” —from The Possibilities Are Endless by Maya Weeks...
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