This might be uplifting

Jon Sarkin: The Accidental Artist, by Amy Ellis Nutt of the Star-Ledger in New Jersey. This was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize a couple years ago, and is about a chiropractor who had a stroke. After recovering, he found that he had a new talent for art.

You want depressing, I'll give you depressing

Life goes on around body found frozen in vacant Detroit warehouse, by Charlie LeDuff in the Detroit News.

Jim Sheeler and Steve Beck on NPR's Fresh Air

This is a great listen.