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By Melissa Karen Sances

“And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you.” — Friedrich NietzscheI have never liked ghost stories. But when I heard about Half-Hanged Mary of Hadley, I was spellbound. Not that long ago, and not that far from here, a...

By EMILEE KLEIN

Manju Sharma remembers sitting on the lawn of her childhood home in Himachal Pradesh — the northern-most state of India — years ago, gazing at a solar eclipse reflected in a flat water vessel.Sharma’s school closed early that day to prevent children...

By STEVE PFARRER

On the U.S.-Mexican border, a desperate mother sends her young daughter alone across a bridge over the Rio Grande to try make it into Texas. In New York City, a Jewish woman confronts the hole in her heart when she thinks of her former Muslim husband,...