When I was a kid, my mom was always chiding me to stay close to her for fear that I’d be “snatched.” When I got a little older, I decided my mom was crazy, paranoid, and overbearing.... Read more >>

Back when she was thirteen years old, Elisha Krauss decided she would do some good in the world. So she donated her hair—all ten inches of it—to a charity that helped kids in need. Eleven... Read more >>

So I dreamed that I was at a camp with a bunch of my friends, and my dad gave me some pepper spray and ax just to be safe. Some guy drove up in a car and asked if I would help him find a puppy. I told... Read more >>

Ever since the rescue of Jaycee Lee Dugard, who was held by her kidnapper for eighteen years, there’s been one question on everyone’s lips—why didn’t she say something? She... Read more >>

In July 2009, the X Games celebrated their fifteenth anniversary in Los Angeles, with over 111,000 thrill seekers in attendance, almost three times the crowd of the original summer games. If the... Read more >>

I’m tired of faking it, Cora thought for the thousandth time. Tired of faking it. She stood in the center of the quiet street with a rock in each of her gloved hands. With a final glance up the... Read more >>

Yesterday, it was ninety-nine degrees here, so when Punky asked if we could get ice cream at the Baskin-Robbins next to the neighborhood post office where we’d gone to run an errand, I think I... Read more >>

I was born to an African-American mother and an Iranian father. They were married but it was not a marriage made of love but one of convenience. My mother needed a husband and my father needed a green... Read more >>

Last year two state police officers were called to remove my boyfriend from my home. I told him I wanted him to move out because he was doing drugs. As a result, he threatened to smash everything in... Read more >>

Recently, a mother of two daughters, ten and twelve, was arrested for allegedly abandoning her children in the business district of Scarsdale, three miles away from their home. After the two daughters... Read more >>