In 2016, Billy Ivey posted a silly note he’d scribbled on a paper napkin to Instagram. The note itself wasn’t unusual. Billy writes one every day for…

The internet is a weird place. Aside from AUTHENTIK, there are a lot of websites that can take you down into the Rabbit Hole of Strange. At…

Here you had two boys with labels of disabilities. They lived in abject poverty … had experienced homelessness, loss, trauma, all before the age of 18, and…

The air in the courtroom feels cold, but his hands are clammy. The former drug dealer wonders if the fear inside him is escaping as condensation through…

I lost my mojo. My friend Liz and I call it “losing our Elvis.” You know those seasons in life when things seem to be going well?…

Ellie Holcomb’s raw, honest, sophomore album, "Red Sea Road," was born out of the darkest season of her life. "Red Sea Road" is the product of sorrow…

When Lexi Thomas went on vacation with her family in Ocean City, Maryland, she wasn’t planning on having appendicitis. Which was good, because she didn’t have appendicitis.…

Being a Playboy Bunny wasn't something I aspired to be. I didn't grow up with a burning desire to be walking porn. It happened the way most…

This story is from the print Spring 2016 Issue of Shattered Magazine. Jamie Blaine was still in college, working as a roller skating rink DJ, when the…

Kimberly Chavez, a 19-year-old high school student from Atlanta, is locked away behind barbed-wire fences deep in the heart of South Georgia. It was just another day…