Heat Miser and Snow Miser fiction: Salon's two-sentence holiday stories, starring the brilliant Xmas special duo

The "Star Wars" holiday special George Lucas wants to smash every copy of with a sledgehammer

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2014's best of the literary Web: From "Mansplanation Nation" to "The Original 'Gone Girl'"

When guys find out I'm a virgin

How I became homeless

Key developments in case of 2 slain NYPD officers

Shares mostly higher in quiet holiday trading

How "Jaws" ruined everything for great white sharks

Making abortion clinics beautiful: Meet the architect changing how we view them

Let's all screw the 1 percent: The simple move Obama could make to strengthen the rest of us

The 10 most tasteless sales items of 2014

Selma is hardly history: Yet after Ferguson and Staten Island, we may be less optimistic today

If the Senate issued a report on America's drone program

Authors' favorite books: The ultimate literary guide to 2014

Top business stories of 2014: US grows, world slows

2014: The year without Rihanna

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