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Short Film Saturday: The Pigeon Kings of Brooklyn
Three New Yorkers find poetry and their own religion, competing for the hearts and minds of a gaggle of pigeons high in the skies over NYC.
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Ram Devineni
What It Took to Write the Personal Essay That’s Setting the Web on Fire
Jenisha Watts, a senior editor at The Atlantic, penned a phenomenal piece that’s blowing readers away. We chatted with her about what it took to write…
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Jesse Sposato
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Narratively Is Excited to Announce Our 2023 Memoir Prize!
Submissions for our second annual Memoir Prize are open now. Read on for all the details—from the $3,000 cash prize to our bestselling memoirist guest…
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How I Wrote Myself into a Real-life Romantic Comedy – That Turned into a Survivalist Thriller
As a filmmaker, I thought I could write the screenplay for my own love life. When I got lost in a hailstorm at 12,000 feet, searching for my ex, I…
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Melissa Johnson
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If You Were Captivated—Or Appalled!—By Our 'Therapist Sex Dare' Story...
Dive deeper into that saga and hear from the analyst herself, along with many other fascinating, complex characters on Narratively's Believable podcast.
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Noah Rosenberg

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The Obsessive Life and Mysterious Death of the Fisherman Who Discovered The Loch Ness Monster
A humble Scotsman saw something strange in the water—and daringly set out to catch it—only to have lecherous out-of-towners steal his fame and upend his…
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Paul Brown
The Sisterhood of Sex and the Quest for Porno Power
Directors with gross demands. Feminists branding them as brainwashed. Five ’80s porn stars were over the not-so-sunny side of the Golden Age of Porn. So…
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Hallie Lieberman
The Curse of the Ship of Gold
How a brilliant scientist went from discovering a mother lode of treasure at the bottom of the sea to fleeing from authorities with suitcases full of…
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Dylan Taylor-Lehman
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How I Wrote Myself into a Real-life Romantic Comedy – That Turned into a Survivalist Thriller
As a filmmaker, I thought I could write the screenplay for my own love life. When I got lost in a hailstorm at 12,000 feet, searching for my ex, I…
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Melissa Johnson
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The Day My Therapist Dared Me to Have Sex With Her
My analyst and I grew more intimately connected each week of treatment...but I never saw this indecent proposal coming.
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Michael Stahl
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I Found God at Queer Summer Camp
I left the evangelical church when I came out as a lesbian. Then I found faith again in the place I least expected.
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Jeanna Kadlec

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