The Architecture of Longing
Su Hui embroidered 841 characters into a 29-by-29 grid that reads in any direction, spinning out some 3,000 poems to win back her husband.
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The Ghost of Len Callcott
Before Depeche Mode, a nine-year-old Dave Gahan met the bus driver he'd been told was 'Uncle Len'—and was really his vanished father.
The Man Who Broke the Lights
Before the jumpsuit and the canyon jumps, Evel Knievel blacked out all of Butte, Montana trying to pop a wheelie in an earthmover.
The Unconvincing Hero
Rejected as not heroic enough to play a POW, Peter Butterworth had really been a vaulter in the actual Stalag Luft III escape.
Ownership of a Name
A Parkland survivor who took five bullets shielding classmates won the exclusive legal rights to his attacker's name, and his silence.
The Architecture of Hellfire
Marines with flamethrowers died in droves until Seabees bolted the Navy's rejected weapons onto tank chassis and named them Satans.
The Household Minister of Finance
The Japanese salaryman rules the office, then hands his entire salary to his wife and lives on the pocket money she doles out by the month.
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