This essay was originally published in Salon on September 25, 2021. We're revisiting Salon's Best Life Stories of 2021 now through the end of the year. Read more Best of 2021 here. During the first ...

During the first July of the pandemic, my brother died on the floor of his living room in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Already for months we’d been reminded via Zoom how people can disappear in a blink. Thunder ...

The South African pastor who went viral last month says his initial Rapture prediction was mistaken because he wasn't using ...

Christopher Sebela and Kendall Goode have never met a ghost — probably. Growing up in an apartment where he knew a previous occupant had died, Sebela once saw a hat seemingly fly across a room under ...