The person writing this works a physically demanding job—bricklaying. They wake up at 5am every day because their construction site is far from their home, and they need time to get there […]
Aubrey Fontenot was worried. His eight-year-old son Jordan was being bullied at school by a classmate named Tamarion. The bullying wasn’t sporadic—Jordan’s progress reports consistently flagged the same name. When Jordan’s phone […]
Connor didn’t have to do this. He’s the older brother. The one without physical limitations. The one who could have run this race alone, competed normally, focused on his own finish time […]
Popcorn was rescued two nights ago. A tiny opossum, barely clinging to life—cold, weak, fragile in the way newborn creatures are when they’ve been separated from their mother too early. The kind […]
The floods came. Rapidly. The kind that doesn’t give you time to prepare, just time to react. Rescue teams were moving through neighborhoods evacuating people to emergency shelters where they’d be safe […]
While the world watched in horror, three hundred search and rescue dogs were working at Ground Zero. Most people don’t know about them. The dogs don’t appear in the iconic photographs. They’re […]
Cactus has been hiding in his crate for days. Not sleeping in it the way dogs normally use crates—as dens, as safe spaces they voluntarily retreat to. Hiding. Withdrawing. Staying in there […]
Dr. Megan Meier was thirty-five weeks pregnant. That’s heavily pregnant—the stage where your body is uncomfortable in every position, where sleep is elusive, where simple tasks require extra effort. The stage where […]
Emily Dickerson lost four rings at McGee Beach in Corpus Christi. Not misplaced in a drawer or left at a friend’s house. Lost at a beach, which meant they could be anywhere—buried […]
In 2011, Joao Pereira de Souza found a penguin on a Brazilian beach. The penguin was dying—covered in oil, weak, barely moving. The kind of scene that breaks your heart because it’s […]