What if author Leo Tolstoy was murdered? Consider the evidence: late in life, the great Russian author started ending his daily journal entries with the phrase “If I am alive.” He and his wife, Countess Sophia Andreyevna Tolstaya…

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Talia Hibbert | Longreads | January 2020 | 8 minutes (2102 words) When people see my tattoos, they ask me, “Did it hurt?” My mind says, “That depends. Do you know what hurt is?” because my mind has a bad attitude and a…

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Claire Fitzsimmons | Longreads | January 2020 | 18 minutes (3,796 words) I'm at my neighbor's house for a Super Bowl party. Taylor is a wonderful cook and a generous host. We've had Thanksgiving and Christmas with her family, and there's an…

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Emma Copley Eisenberg | Longreads | excerpt from The Third Rainbow Girl | January 2020 | 14 minutes (3,877 words) It starts with a road, a two-lane blacktop called West Virginia Route 219 that spines its way through Pocahontas County and serves…

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Leora Smith | Longreads | January 2020 | 18 minutes (4,961 words) CW: This story discusses a suicide that occurred at the Burning Man festival in 2017, and also thoughts of suicide. In between the fabric folds of towering red and white tents, a…

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