ByJessica Gentile

Jessica Gentile is a writer living in the New York City area. Her writing has appeared in The Atlantic, Paste Magazine, Nerve, CMJ and elsewhere. Follow her on twitter @volume_knob where she mostly posts about cats, snacks and music.

  1. Unlike those who donate clothes to the homeless or ladle soup to the hungry, April gave her time to the dead. As a volunteer coroner, she’d hoist bodies into vans, transport corpses to the morgue and examine the flesh with scrupulous detail, as if to prove that those who are gone need help too.

    I was unaware such community service even existed until April emailed me one day, ecstatic over her new…

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