I love a really good story. Particularly, I love the long-form nonfiction essay, the kind of tale that's long enough to spend an evening reading in bed, but not so long that you put it down and lose interest to the inevitable distraction.
I read one tonight that I want to share, plus another from a few years back.
If you have a great example on this format, please post it up!
Here's the first one: the true story of the MS Estonia, an oceangoing car ferry that sank in 1994. I don't want to give too much away but this one is really tough to read. Terrifying, riveting, and tragic, but true. A portrait of what happens to humanity when all order breaks down.
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I read one tonight that I want to share, plus another from a few years back.
If you have a great example on this format, please post it up!
Here's the first one: the true story of the MS Estonia, an oceangoing car ferry that sank in 1994. I don't want to give too much away but this one is really tough to read. Terrifying, riveting, and tragic, but true. A portrait of what happens to humanity when all order breaks down.
A Sea Story
One of the worst maritime disasters in European history took place a decade ago. It remains very much in the public eye. On a stormy night on the Baltic Sea, more than 850 people lost their lives when a luxurious ferry sank below the waves. From a mass of material, including official and...
