Courtney Scott was driving her 8-year-old son home from school in St. Louis last spring when trees began to fall…
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From the window of a moving car, the rolling terrain of western Jasper County, Missouri, has stretches of land that…
Missouri’s caves don’t make a fuss about themselves. They are mostly not marked and aren’t noticed as they sit under…
Central Kansas’s skies went from clear to terrible in what seemed like minutes on April 13 evening. In three counties,…
A house collapsing into the ground has a subtle, unsettling quality. There was only the ground collapsing beneath something that…
A quick, rhythmic buzz on the thigh, a phantom notification that sends a jolt of anticipation—or dread—up the spine, is…
Watching a flamingo sleep causes a brief period of cognitive dissonance. A ball of pink feathers perched on a single,…
The sight of a house centipede evokes a certain, primordial fear. A blur of thirty legs ripples across the wall…
The first bite of a chicken nugget that has never had a heartbeat causes a deep cognitive discomfort. The bargain…
Human memory is frequently idealized as a devoted archivist, a dusty library where each experience is captured on a brand-new…