Embrace the Unfamiliar
This week's Write the Book prompt was suggested guest Caroline Lea. Lea suggests visiting a locale you don't normally visit and writing about it....
These are Some Very Loud Teeth
It sounds like a demonic curse - or an awesome D&D spell - but the apparently real story of people whose teeth literally exploded...
These Rocks are Alive!
Or maybe not. But they look cool!
In Romania, the small town of Costesti boasts boulders--called trovants or living rocks--that excrete smaller versions of themselves,...
The Bag of Secrets
Between the 1400s and 1800s, the UK government maintained a Bag of Secrets containing the records of notorious legal trials, most for treason. The...
The Man Who Couldn’t be Hanged
In the early 1800s, petty thief Joseph Samuel was convicted of the murder of a local Australian policeman and sentenced to death by hanging....
The Farmers Who Tended Meteors
In the early 1900s, drought-stricken farmers in Kansas traded harvesting crops for digging up meteors to sell. The practice turned out to be so...
Prompt: What Would Have Been Different?
This week's Write the Book prompt was suggested by Annie Seyler. For a journaling and story exercise, pick a moment from your childhood that shaped...
Who Was the Leatherman
Between 1857 and 1889, a man (purportedly) named Jules Bourglay or Rudoph Mossey repeatedly walked a 365 mile loop through western Connecticut and eastern...
The Lost Gods of Amorite
Researchers have just discovered and decoded a language lost for thousands of years, and have translated the names of the lost gods of Mesopotamia....
The War Queens of History
A post on Atlas Obscura highlights bad-ass war queens from history, including Queen Tamar of Georgia, who ushered in the nation's golden age; Caterina...
