On the evening of October 27th, 2014, 17-year-old Jesus Maness found himself at Kinloch Park in Miami, Florida, immersed in a fast-paced basketball game with a group of friends. The sun was beginning to set, and the court buzzed with energy as the two teams battled it out. Jesus’s team was holding their own in […]
On the night of August 20, 2012, two best friends, 19-year-old Rosem and Elizabeth Nass, decided to spend their final evening together before parting ways for college. It had been a golden summer, and with both heading to different states for school, they wanted one last memory to hold on to. Their favorite spot in
On the evening of May 21, 2015, in a quiet neighborhood in Hong Kong, a 16-year-old girl named Lily walked into her home gym expecting an empty space to complete a workout. Instead, she found her father, Dr. Kakim’s Son, a well-respected hospital physician, finishing a workout of his own—cooling down on a yoga ball.
A Tragic Bible Study in Ulis, Texas On the evening of September 17, 2021, in the small city of Ulis, Texas—nestled between Dallas and Fort Worth—a 42-year-old preacher named Jason Thornberg prepared his motel room to host a Bible study group. Once a devoted man of God, Thornberg had lost his home in a fire
The Fatal Morning Drive That Shocked Brooklyn On the morning of July 7, 1967, 17-year-old Nancy Mchuan was driving along a scenic highway in Brooklyn, New York, on her way to work at her father’s office. Coming from her home in Long Island, she was enjoying the peaceful drive in her brand-new yellow Camaro, a
On the midday of June 1st, 2018, 36-year-old Luis Garcia made his way into Mexico City to link up with his elder sibling. The two of them were extremely tight-knit. They had endured a great deal together. When Luis was 14 and his brother was 15, their guardians had undergone a very chaotic separation. And
In the midday of October 11th, 2016, a middle-aged gentleman called Carlos Herrera Senior entered the meeting section of a penitentiary in Venezuela. The chamber itself resembled somewhat like a secondary school dining hall, with desks and seats all around for the convicts and their guests to settle and conduct their conversations. And directly in
23 September 1839 – Drake Passage, AntarcticaA routine whaling expedition took a grim and unexpected turn when Captain Brighton and his crew discovered a ghost ship drifting silently through the icy waters of the Drake Passage—its crew long dead and eerily preserved in time. The chilling encounter occurred in one of the world’s most treacherous
The AwakeningOakland, California — October 20, 1991 — 11:00 a.m. The sun peeked through half-closed blinds.Will, 31, stirred in bed. His wife lay peacefully beside him.But peace ended with his first inhale.Smoke. He sat up. Eyes open now.Something was burning. Will padded barefoot across the cool hardwood to the bedroom window.Outside: a thick column of
You ever hear the sound of hope through a hospital hallway? It’s not loud. It’s a whisper — like a heartbeat on weak lungs. September, 1954. I was 14. And I was tired — not just from the tuberculosis that lived in my lungs like it paid rent, but from the waiting. The slow shuffle
