After her mastectomy, Juliet Disparte gets breast implants — a process that reveals just how shallow she is.

As the New York City Marathon nears, Lindsay Crouse lessens her running and ups her eating and sleeping.

When John Davidson’s apartment gets robbed, he learns that the easiest way to get his stuff back is to have one drug dealer lie to another drug dealer while he lies to the police.

Katie Boody struggles to console one of her brightest students after his older brother is murdered.

Luke Epplin likes his food bland and simple — why is that so hard to explain?

A comic by Maré Odomo about being an observer of the Occupy movement.

Juliet Disparte makes her first life-or-death decision.

On her first day teaching in one of Kansas City’s poorest neighborhoods, Katie Boody confronts the elephant in the seventh-grade classroom: her last name.

When Craig McCarthy can’t have a Thanksgiving at home with his family, he decides to have the worst Thanksgiving possible. At a strip club.

Kevin Nguyen rents a condo for a year and deals with unpleasant neighbors, noise complaints, and mythical “meth teens.”

After a devastating breakup, Eric Smith does the only sensible thing: he buys a full set of armor inspired by Halo.

For Lindsay Crouse, there’s no better motivator in a race than arbitrarily picking a nemesis. Hers are always skirted.