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By Ada Calhoun
After an otherworldly encounter in their bedroom, two young women found fame and fortune helping nineteenth-century mourners speak to their dead. The religion they inspired lives on to this day—and so does the suspicion that it was all a childhood prank. Read the full story
Illustrations by Aimee Bee Brooks
By Taylor McGraw
Two thousand high-achieving students. Hordes of proud parents, anxious coaches, and one scrappy underdog team from Harlem. Screaming. Crying. Chess. Read the full the story
Illustration by Janny Ji
By Stephen Lyons
Through deluge and drought, the legendary “Hawk Man of Iowa” has spent decades along a remote stretch of the Mississippi known as the Driftless Area. But can the river help him escape his grief when he needs it most? Read the full story
Illustrations by Michael Molfetas
By Sarah Fazeli
At age six, I couldn’t imagine anything more magical than working with Mickey and Friends. As an adult, it took three mice, a mermaid, and a purple-robed Merlin to help me escape my dream-crushing day job at Walt Disney World. Read the full story
Illustrations by Vinnie Neuberg
By Howard Shulman
When a horrifying bacterial infection disfigured my newborn face, my parents abandoned me right there in my hospital bed. The only thing more painful than knowing they left me behind was tracking them down 38 years later. Read the full story
Illustration by Lee Lai
The Day My Therapist Dared Me to Have Sex with Her, ink on bristol colored digitally, 11″ x 8 1/2″ (header with spots), 2015.
A series of illustrations for an essay by Michael Stahl for Narratively. The week’s theme was “Sex Ed.” You might notice that the furniture in the therapist’s office is a nod to “The Sopranos,” which is also mentioned as a joke in the article.
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From yearning for romance as a tornado touches down to adopting a fake identity for the entire summer, at camp everyone is a mystery, anything is possible and every moment is earth-shattering. Read the full stories
Illustrations by Sarah Lammer
By April Siese
Before every epic set from the Rolling Stones or Rihanna, dozens of backstage heroes haul tons of gear across hundreds of miles so their stars can shine. Read the full story
Illustrations by Marc Pearson
By Peter Yeung
An English newcomer arrives in the U.S. with a spirit of adventure and an offbeat mission: to thumb a series of rides from San Francisco to Portland in a single day. Read the full story
Illustration by George Mager
By Daniela Blei
Growing up in Chicago, my dad barely spoke of the horrors he witnessed during Argentina’s “Dirty War.” Then one day a doom-filled document landed on our doorstep and I finally began to understand. Read the full story
Illustrations by Alison Rutsch
By Michael Stahl
My analyst and I grew more intimately connected each week of treatment...but I never saw this indecent proposal coming. Read the full story
Illustrations by Casey Roonan
By Chloe Stillwell
From the tender age of four, rampant masturbation was my secret shame. It took an awkward sex ed class at a Christian private school to inadvertently teach me I wasn’t alone. Read the full story
Illustrations by Molly Walsh
By Henry Latourette Miller
When one broke Brooklynite embarks on a new side job as an escort for hire, he finds himself swimming through a murky world of easy money, broken promises and naked truths. Read the full story
Illustrations by Benjamin Urkowitz
By Mark Johanson
One American woman finds fame as a sex-toy pioneer and saucy media personality tearing down taboos in one of Latin America’s most conservative countries. Read the full story
Illustration by Ivy Bradley
See what Angels Landing at Zion National Park looks like before the tourists arrive: http://narr.ly/1II0RIP
"Each day during prime tourist season thousands of park visitors hike here. From the landing, where one has a full view of the lower half of the trail, it is said that hikers coming up look like ants winding their way up the anthill..." Visit Angels Landing with Keys to Freeze on Narratively: http://narr.ly/1II0RIP
See "A Race to the Top of the Most Beautiful Place on Earth, Angels Landing": http://narr.ly/1II0RIP
