Okay, well, if you made it this far, you're probably wondering, how did she end up here?

In this trash room, surrounded by piles of printouts, making a podcast about dead stories.

Well, you're about to find out.

From Justin Harmon and audio Chuck, this is Killed, the podcast that brings dead stories

back to life.

Season 2, Episode 4, The Relationship.

The first time I ever heard about Killed Stories, or Killed Fees, was in 2012.

When I finally got the job I had been angling for since I graduated college years earlier.

At 27, I was an assistant editor at L, and for the first time in my life, I felt like

I was exactly where I was supposed to be.

A decade ago, the L Futures Department was absolutely stacked with talent.

Editors whose experience dwarfed my own.

A roster of contract writers whose books and articles changed the cultural conversation.

And then there was me, making sure that those writers got paid.

I'm not sure I've ever wanted something as consistently as I've wanted to be a writer.

To have an idea, to sell people on it, and to deliver thousands of words that not only

explain something precisely, but also make the reader understand some greater, more honest

truth about the world we live in.

There is nothing I wouldn't do for a story back then.

No where I wouldn't go, literally and figuratively.

After nearly two years on the Features team at L, I accepted a full-time role at the website.

For L.com, which published somewhere between six and ten original pieces a day, I regularly

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