Tori Telfer
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Chicago, IL, United States
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What It's Like to Give Up on Your Dreams
"Now, it still makes me cry to think about art and how crushing it was to give it up. I miss it every day and wish I had stuck with it." → Read More
This Guy Is Walking Across America Barefoot to Protest Climate Change
So far, Mark Baumer has logged two months of walking and raised thousands of dollars. → Read More
Kesha, Raquel Welch, and the Lawsuits that Destroy Female Stars
Thirty-five years ago, Raquel Welch sued over her contract and her acting career imploded. → Read More
A Tour of Hollywood's Creepiest Motels
"If you are there now, and reading this, do not leave your room at night." → Read More
Disability, Deception, and the People Who Pretend to Be Blind
Blindsimmers, or people who pretend to be blind, feel a visceral desire to obscure their own vision, sometimes leading them to take drastic measures. → Read More
Disability, Deception, and the People Who Pretend to Be Blind
Blindsimmers, or people who pretend to be blind, feel a visceral desire to obscure their own vision, sometimes leading them to take drastic measures. → Read More
I Wore Kendall & Kylie's Pacsun Line Out On The Town And Tried To Act Like An Adult
In not so surprising news, Kendall and Kylie Jenner are turning into quite the little fashion powerhouses. And I would know: I follow them on Instagram. Yeah, yeah, it’s kind of like we went to Coachella together. Anyway, this May, they released a line of clothes — I’ll call them, oh, haute-beachy → Read More
I Wrote Fiction Every Day For A Week, And Realized Something Terrifying About My Own Schedule And "Process"
I write — for work — almost every single day. Which is great! But when it comes to the writing I don’t get paid to do, like fiction, I have always, and I mean always, struggled with sticking to a routine. If I’m not in a workshop, on deadline, or getting paid $1 million per word, it’s easy to let → Read More
The Future of Periods Will Be High-Tech, Messy, and Might Involve Jellyfish
In the future, there could be computerized tampons that tell you when to change them, dissolvable tampons that can release HIV-prevention medication, and tampons that even detect ovarian cancer. → Read More
Toxic Shock: Why This Woman Is Suing a Tampon Company After Losing Her Leg
After toxic shock syndrome nearly killed Lauren Wasser, the former model and athlete has devoted herself to rectifying what she sees as serious problems with the tampon industry. → Read More
Toxic Shock: Why This Woman Is Suing a Tampon Company After Losing Her Leg
After toxic shock syndrome nearly killed Lauren Wasser, the former model and athlete has devoted herself to rectifying what she sees as serious problems with the tampon industry. → Read More
Are Multiple Personalities Always a Disorder?
Members of the multiplicity community insist that they're healthy, happy, and even normalâthey just have up to hundreds of personalities contained within one body. → Read More
23 Of The Best Books For Beginning Writers, Recommended By Writers And Editors At AWP 2015
Five years ago, Google told us that there were 129 million different books in the world. Five years ago! This means that, as a fledging writer, you may feel a sensation of acute overwhelmedness when trying to educate yourself. Should you begin with the classics? Knock out a couple old Russian → Read More
The Secret Lives of Hollywood Boulevard's Johnny Depp Impersonators
Inside the competitive, stressful, and occasionally lucrative world of the men who dress up like Jack Sparrow, Willy Wonka, the Mad Hatter, and "regular" Johnny Depp. → Read More
How To Give Yourself A Facial In A Motel (Or, The “Desperate Times Call For Desperate Measures” Look)
Quick, what’s the driest thing you can think of? The Mojave Desert? An empty margarita glass? A piece of sandpaper being dragged slowly across the surface of a chalkboard? Whatever you’re picturing, dear reader, I’m here to tell you that it’s an apt metaphor for my face when I travel. Which is why → Read More
What Do Dominatrixes Do on Their Days Off?
When they're not spanking people for money, many dommes have totally normal lives and even full-time jobs. We talked to a few of them about their life outside the dungeon. → Read More
Lady Killers: Tillie Klimek, High Priestess of the Bluebeard Clique
This is the fourth installment of Lady Killers, a series about female serial killers. Read chapters 1 and 2 here; read chapter 3 here. → Read More
The World's First EDM 5K Was Incredibly Wholesome
Welcome to Nocturnal Lands, where rain forces the DJ to close his set two hours early, kids attend with their parents, and you can't run 50 feet without coming across something that reminds you of Instagram. → Read More
âThe Big Book of Female Killers: Mary Ann Cotton, the Arsenic Queen
This is the third installment of Lady Killers, a series about female serial killers. Read chapters 1 and 2 here. → Read More
How Do You Get Over Someone? 15 Books to Get You Through a Breakup With Your Dignity Intact
Ways to get over a breakup: 1) Let the agonizingly slow march of time pass you by 2) Find someone new to love and/or flaunt in his face 3) Key his car — with a baseball bat 4) Find a new hobby, like gardening or poetry or black and white photographs of his new lover taken with a hidden camera 5) → Read More