By: Douglas Wolk

BUSTED STATUES

By: Douglas Wolk

THE WORLD’S BIGGEST CHIA PET

By: Douglas Wolk

LIBERTY UNDER ATTACK

By: Douglas Wolk

THE WRONG COLOR OF LIBERTY

By: Rani Som

“Some days just going out, being in public, feels like a battle.”

By: Douglas Wolk

LIBERTY’S NEW LOOK

By: David Hajdu

“Yes, I know wearing pince-nez makes me come off as pretentious.”

By: Davy Rothbart

“Dude,” he said to me, “You can’t walk around everywhere holding your pants up.”

By: Douglas Wolk

THE MEETING PLACE

By: Douglas Wolk

VILLAIN HQ

By: Douglas Wolk

BIRTHDAY CAKE

By: James Gaddy

“Maybe it’s that clicky sound, which can give just about any task a metronomic rhythm.”

By: Hillary Chute

“My pocket knife tumbled out of my pants pocket and fell into the toilet and was immediately swept away .”

By: Kristin Parker

“Then she took the steel bracelet off her tiny wrist and fitted it onto mine.”

By: Anne Quito

“I imagined the earrings as a kind of heirloom from a fabulous ancient ancestor.”