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The devil inside

Around and around they go, walking in a circle, speaking in tongues, clutching toy swords and holding crimson flags aloft, as the music blares, absolutely blares, from the speakers on the altar.

Curtain call

The kids have been rehearsing their play for half an hour now, yet none of them has spoken a word.

It’s a spring morning, and a couple dozen students are gathered in the gym at the Detroi ...

Different strokes

It’s dark as the movie begins. You sit in your seat and take in the bright light of the screen, the vivid sounds, the action that unfolds before you. And when you’re ready, you pull down your p ...

God on her side

A woman enters the record store, walks past the wall of CDs, past the sign that says “Buy 12 tapes in 1 year, get a cassette free,” and over to the counter at the other side of the store to get ...

Only the lonely

Their names are read one by one. Each of them is dead, and nearly all of them died alone.

It’s a winter evening inside Perry Funeral Home on Trumbull near Warren in Detroit. A handful ...