KJ Naum imagines what it’s like to live (and die) with a literal crick in the neck, dispensing advice via Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Cask of Amontillado.”

Allison C. Meier on creaks, hauntings, and cemeteries: weapons against forgetting

Lydia See’s photo essay on flood warnings and dropped signals in the cricks and hollers of Appalachia, a place where communities use spotty internet to work toward liberation.