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When my sister, Amy, was in 9th grade, her favorite math teacher, Mr. Marris, leapt from the top story of the humanities building and exploded on the pavement. He did it right as the lunch bell rang when the main quad was at its busiest. Later, everyone would have a story: a description of the…

My mother always made me play hide and seek with her. It was just her and me, and we played at nine. Each time, without failure, she told me to ignore her during the game. She told me that she would purposefully try to trick me, but, you know, if you really wanted to trick…

I always saw Marilyn walking three huge dogs in the park. She was a little 5’1 woman walking these giant bernese mountain dogs and handling it with ease. I was in love even though I didn’t know a single thing about her.  I worked up the courage to talk to her. She was nice but…

I know that this sounds like the kind of advice to anyone left alone in the house at night but this is different. It started a week ago, I was in bed it had just turned 01:00, I was scrolling on my phone while my wife Steph was asleep. I suddenly had a notification pop…

Any woman who has ever spurned a man’s advances already knows my story. Rejecting someone you have known and loved is, I think, even more perilous than rejecting a stranger. Edward and I dated for six months. He was an exceptional man in so many ways, but he soon revealed his contemptible side, and that…

Hannah Ross died on June 9th, 1982. It was a rainy Wednesday afternoon and I can’t imagine that anybody really cared. I mean, she didn’t have any family and considering the number of other people who’d also died at the same time, in the same place, she wasn’t really unique. Just another victim of some…

Don’t read it on a computer an iPad, or any large screen for that matter. Even if you live alone don’t sit with your back facing a larger room. If someone or something was particularly good at hiding, slender, quiet, and quick they could easily be in the same room as you, peering in through…

We killed Joseph Glass for the first time on August 18th, 1999. I knew he was a strange case since day one. Never seen a guy so happy to die before. It was like we were doing him a favor. He refused the automatic appeal. He refused to be seen by a chaplain. He just…