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Editors’ Picks: The Best Narratively Stories of 2020

King Chaos, Queen Cricket and One Long, Strange Year in a Roadside Homeless Camp

King Chaos, Queen Cricket and One Long, Strange Year in a Roadside Homeless Camp

The 10 Most Popular Narratively Stories of 2020

The Obsessive Life and Mysterious Death of the Fisherman Who Discovered The Loch Ness Monster

The Obsessive Life and Mysterious Death of the Fisherman Who Discovered The Loch Ness Monster

The Writer Taking on the “Troubled Teen” Industry

The Renegade DIYers Demanding Dolls as Diverse as They Are

Smokin’ Cy DeVry Was the Original Tiger King

How to Learn About Sex When Your Famous Sex-Advice Father Teaches You Nothing

How to Learn About Sex When Your Famous Sex-Advice Father Teaches You Nothing

This Writer is Lifting the Veil on Lower Surgery

The Distinguished Medieval Penis Investigators

The Distinguished Medieval Penis Investigators

And the Cure for Millennial Burnout Is ...This Giant Penguin

And the Cure for Millennial Burnout Is...This Giant Penguin

Snowed In with a Ghost

Snowed In with a Ghost

How Ted Bundy’s Killing Spree Launched a Legion of Feminist Karate Masters

How Ted Bundy’s Killing Spree Launched a Legion of Feminist Karate Masters

The Pandemic Ruined My Poly Relationship—But Saved My Marriage

The Pandemic Ruined My Poly Relationship—But Saved My Marriage

The Secret Sisterhood of Offshore Oil Workers

The Secret Sisterhood of Offshore Oil Workers

The Writers Who Want to Get Americans to Talk to Each Other Again

The Warriors of a Failed Revolution

The Warriors of a Failed Revolution

My Journey Into the Secret Subculture of Gays With Guns

My Journey Into the Secret Subculture of Gays With Guns

My Dad, the Globetrotting Businessman, Paleographer...and Spy?

My Dad, the Globetrotting Businessman, Paleographer...and Spy?

A Memoir about Multiple Personalities That’s 25 Years in the Making

Food Fads Have Always Been Ridiculous. Just Ask the Great Masticator.

Food Fads Have Always Been Ridiculous. Just Ask the Great Masticator.

I Professed My Love at Mile 15...But Not to My Husband

I Professed My Love at Mile 15...But Not to My Husband

How to Subvert a Democracy, Stage 6: Cover Your Tracks

How to Subvert a Democracy, Stage 5: Showdown

How to Subvert a Democracy, Stage 4: Divide and Conquer

How to Subvert a Democracy, Stage 3: Create Your Own News

How to Subvert a Democracy, Stage 2: Condition the Masses

How to Subvert a Democracy, Stage 1: Propaganda and Puppets

The (Literally) Unbelievable Story of the Original Fake News Network

The (Literally) Unbelievable Story of the Original Fake News Network

How to Subvert a Democracy, Stage 1: Propaganda and Puppets

How to Subvert a Democracy, Stage 2: Condition the Masses

How to Subvert a Democracy, Stage 3: Create Your Own News

How to Subvert a Democracy, Stage 4: Divide and Conquer

How to Subvert a Democracy, Stage 5: Showdown

How to Subvert a Democracy, Stage 6: Cover Your Tracks

The (Literally) Unbelievable Story of the Original Fake News Network

America’s Most Flamboyant Private Eye and the 8,000-Mile Manhunt

America’s Most Flamboyant Private Eye and the 8,000-Mile Manhunt

Suzanne Heintz is Done Playing House

The Secret Life of Russia’s Remote Freedom Fighter

The Secret Life of Russia’s Remote Freedom Fighter

My Lifelong Journey to Find Pee-wee Herman

My Lifelong Journey to Find Pee-wee Herman

Daughters of the Bomb: A Story of Hiroshima, Racism and Human Rights

Daughters of the Bomb: A Story of Hiroshima, Racism and Human Rights

The International Murder Case That Changed My Reporting Career

The International Murder Case That Changed My Reporting Career

An American Tragedy: The Colorful Life and Shocking Death of Ovid Neal III

An American Tragedy: The Colorful Life and Shocking Death of Ovid Neal III

Longshot Dreams and Slapshot Fiends in the Ultimate ’90s Pro Sports League

How One Writer Found His Happily Whatever After

Longshot Dreams and Slapshot Fiends in the Ultimate ’90s Pro Sports League

My Wild Escape Into the Parrot Protection Program

My Wild Escape Into the Parrot Protection Program

Two Geniuses, One Wheelchair and an Audacious Plan to Swim with the Whales

Two Geniuses, One Wheelchair and an Audacious Plan to Swim with the Whales

The Dangerous Undersea Search for Missing Military Heroes

The Dangerous Undersea Search for Missing Military Heroes

The New Sisterhood of Black Female Homesteaders

The New Sisterhood of Black Female Homesteaders

That Time I Spontaneously Flew Across the World for a Dead Rock Star

That Time I Spontaneously Flew Across the World for a Dead Rock Star

Conscripted Into The Emperor’s Private Orchestra

Conscripted Into The Emperor’s Private Orchestra

A Fortress Full of Stories

The Crime Victim Who’s Obsessed with True Crime Shows

The Crime Victim Who’s Obsessed with True Crime Shows

How the World’s Most Venomous Fish Convinced Me to Stop Working Myself to Death

How the World’s Most Venomous Fish Convinced Me to Stop Working Myself to Death

The DJ Who Broadcast to One Listener for 40 Years

The Quarantined Hippies Trapped in a Jungle Paradise

The Quarantined Hippies Trapped in a Jungle Paradise

My Father's Fanatical Feud With the Bullies Next Door Became an All-Out War

My Father's Fanatical Feud With the Bullies Next Door Became an All-Out War

The King Who Ordered a Quarantine to Flatten the Curve 4,000 Years Ago

The King Who Ordered a Quarantine to Flatten the Curve 4,000 Years Ago

The American Medical System Doesn't Care How Much My Vagina Hurts

The American Medical System Doesn't Care How Much My Vagina Hurts

The Indigenous Woman Behind South America's Biggest Male Chefs

The Indigenous Woman Behind South America's Biggest Male Chefs

Monarchy, Mayhem and Micronations

My Secret Life as a Personal Assistant to “America’s Most Eligible Man”

My Secret Life as a Personal Assistant to 'America’s Most Eligible Man'

The Black Investigator Who Went Undercover as a White Man in the Jim Crow South

The Black Investigator Who Went Undercover as a White Man in the Jim Crow South

My Father, the QAnon Conspiracy Theorist

My Father, the QAnon Conspiracy Theorist

The Making of (a Book About) a Monster

My Unhealthy Obsession with My Dead Middle School Crush

My Unhealthy Obsession with My Dead Middle School Crush

Meet the People Who Believe They’ve Traveled to a Past Life

Meet the People Who Believe They’ve Traveled to a Past Life

The Teenage Prank That’s Lasted 60 Years

The Teenage Prank That's Lasted 60 Years

The Indigenous Rebel Who Took the Fight to White Settlers

The Indigenous Rebel Who Took the Fight to White Settlers

This Narratively Editor’s First Book is a Home Run

The Secret Society of Self-Stingers

The Secret Society of Self-Stingers

Help! I Think I'm Falling in Love Over Zoom

Help! I Think I'm Falling in Love Over Zoom

The Pirates of the Highways

The Pirates of the Highways

The King Who Became a Pirate

The King Who Became a Pirate

Where Journalists Prepare for the Worst the World Can Throw at Us

Where Journalists Prepare for the Worst the World Can Throw at Us

The First Family of Counterfeit Hunting

The High Notes and Hard Knocks of My Traveling Karaoke Family

The Black Widow Bank Robber’s Web of Secrets

The Black Widow Bank Robber’s Web of Secrets

Secret Life of an Anonymous Speechwriter to the Stars

Secret Life of an Anonymous Speechwriter to the Stars

The Astonishing Rise of “Blair the Flair”

How This Narratively Editor is Tackling The Journalism World While Being a Nomad

The Astonishing Rise of “Blair the Flair”

My Secret Life as a Coronavirus Nomad

Music Saved Her Life. Now She Wants to Save Yours.

Music Saved Her Life. Now She Wants to Save Yours.

Searching for the Woman Who Saved My Immigrant Family from Homelessness

My Secret Life as a Coronavirus Nomad

Thursday March 19, 2020

The Acrobatic Immigrant Who Invented Pilates in a Prisoner of War Camp

The Acrobatic Immigrant Who Invented Pilates in a Prisoner of War Camp

How Conquering the Disney Cosplay Universe Helped Me Finally Love My Body

How Conquering the Disney Cosplay Universe Helped Me Finally Love My Body

Lifelong Quests! Lawsuits! Feuds! A Super-Serious Story About Cereal.

Lifelong Quests! Lawsuits! Feuds! A Super-Serious Story About Cereal.

My Name-Twin Was Arrested for Robbery...and Everyone Thought It Was Me

My Name-Twin Was Arrested for Robbery...and Everyone Thought It Was Me

How Sassafras Lowrey Made Writing About Dogs a Career

The Woman Who Found a Snail in Her Soda and Launched a Million Lawsuits

The Woman Who Found a Snail in Her Soda and Launched a Million Lawsuits

My Secret Life Tracking Down Medical Debtors

My Secret Life Tracking Down Debtors

Unmasking the Spiritual Scammers of Paris

Unmasking the Spiritual Scammers of Paris

The Million-Dollar Scammer and His Many Mormon Marks

The Million-Dollar Scammer and His Many Mormon Marks

The 19th-Century Nurse Who Was Secretly a Serial Killer

The 19th-Century Nurse Who Was Secretly a Serial Killer

All Hail Yo-Yo, 4-Year-Old Mayor of the Cancer Ward Clowns

All Hail Yo-Yo, 4-Year-Old Mayor of the Cancer Ward Clowns

The Donkey Farmer’s Magical Matchmaking Book

The Donkey Farmer’s Magical Matchmaking Book

How to Transition When Your Models of Masculinity Are Macho Biker Dudes

How to Transition When Your Models of Masculinity Are Macho Biker Dudes

This Millennial’s Alter Ego is a Forgotten Female Surgeon From WWI

This Millennial’s Alter Ego is a Forgotten Female Surgeon From WWI

How This Narratively Contributor Turned His Investigative Reporting Into a Novel

What I Learned About Life at a Company That Deals in Dead Bodies

What I Learned About Life at a Company That Deals in Dead Bodies

The Greatest Political Sh*tshow That Ever Was

Judges Gone Wild

I Was Taught to Hate My Lesbian Neighbors. They Took Me In Anyway.

The Unsung Black Musician Who Changed Country Music

The Unsung Black Musician Who Changed Country Music

How Stripping in Gay Bars Brought Me Back to God

How Stripping in Gay Bars Brought Me Back to God

Two Gay Chinese Dads. One Long and Winding Trip to Fatherhood.

Two Gay Chinese Dads. One Long and Winding Trip to Fatherhood.

I Survived My Own R. Kelly Story

I Survived My Own R. Kelly Story

The Deadliest Marksman’s Cold, Brave Stand

The Deadliest Marksman’s Cold, Brave Stand

Secret Life of a Broke Personal Finance Guru

Secret Life of a Broke Personal Finance Guru

I Quit My Job at 50 to Reinvent Myself. Pro Tip: Don't Do This.

I Quit My Job at 50 to Reinvent Myself. Pro Tip: Don't Do This.