Stories are told in the body. It doesn’t seem that way. We tend to think of stories as emerging from consciousness—from dreams or fantasies—and traveling through words or images to other minds. We see ...

There is a quieter, more succinct wing of literature that thrives on pithy conciseness: the short story. The authors of this art form have perfected the concept of this type of storytelling by ...

Instagram Stories have become a staple on the social media app since the feature’s launch in 2016. Instead of posting carefully curated photos that will stay on your feed indefinitely (unless you ...

Since its launch in August 2016, Instagram Stories has been one of the premiere channels for everyday ephemera, a space for users to spontaneously share photos and short, often goofy videos.

That’s what Ben’s father says to the camera as we see Ben play in the background. Ben is two years old and doesn’t know that a brain tumor will take his life in a matter of months. Ben’s father tells ...

Storytelling is the best tool we have for effectively communicating about big, systemic issues like racism, classism, and transphobia. People think in stories. When we don’t have a narrative that ...

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Professor Jim Tucker thinks that past lives are possible. Here are startling accounts of children who may have been reincarnated. Reincarnation means “to take on the flesh again,” and it is recognized ...