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Newsletters / #004 In Case You Missed It

Hauntings.

October 2020

  • Case of Missing CoAuthor

    Maggie Messitt

    When Your Co-Author Is Missing

    A niece recounts her search for a lost aunt and reflects on the books and documentary films that helped her understand how to write with an absent co-author

    Issue 54

  • Sejal H. Patel

    Visiting the Past

    A daughter travels to the rural Indian village where her father grew up and uses her skills as a trial lawyer to build a complete picture of her father's past

    Issue 54

  • Emily Brisse

    This Is My Oldest Story

    Emily Brisse was just eight years old when eleven-year-old Jacob Wetterling was abducted from their small Minnesota town. Haunted by the long-unsolved mystery of the boy’s disappearance, Emily tries to make sense of a terrible story that isn’t really hers to tell—but that also shaped her entire life.

    True Story, Issue #15

  • Emily Waples

    Freedom

    An Ohio gothic

    Issue 70

  • Sara Dailey

    The Memory Train

    "Among the 15,000 items housed in the Warren Anatomical Museum in Boston is the skull of Phineas Gage, a railroad worker who survived after a large iron rod punctured his left frontal lobe."

    Issue 47

  • Extinction

    J. D. Lewis

    Extinction

    For any particular organism that once existed, the probabilitythat it today is part of the fossil record is infinitesimally small. A fundamental difficulty with extinction is that it is impossible to prove a negative—the absence of a species—and, therefore, to be sure exactly when extinction occurred. —Paul D. Taylor, “Extinctions in the History of Life” A coelacanth is a big ugly prehistoric fish. 

    Issue 42

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