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Kevin Carroll and Debi Waeber were high school sweethearts who became separated by the Vietnam War and an unplanned pregnancy. Decades later, neither had an inkling that their paths would cross again. Host Michel Martin speaks with them about their story, which is featured in this week's Washington Post Magazine.

We have our judge, we have our writing prompt and now we have our date. Round 7 of our exclusive Three-Minute-Fiction contest starts Saturday, September 10.

Could Shakespeare have been in love if he didn't even exist? Director Roland Emmerich's Elizabethan-era costume drama turns a cockamamie idea about the Bard's "real" identity into a ridiculous but handsome thriller.

People from across the country are gathering at the 2011 New York Comic Con to share their love of comics, anime, games, graphic novels and more. Michel Martin gets the dish on this year's event from Latoya Peterson, editor of the blog Racialicious.com and an anime fan who's attending the convention.

In a village near Beijing, Little Donkey Farm is trying to rebuild a tradition of organic farming in the world's most populous country. It builds on thousands of years of Chinese history, but it's also inspired by American experiences.

A driving force behind City Museum in St. Louis, the sculptor created spaces that invite adults and children to interact with his creations. He died in late September, working on a massive project he called Cementland.

The clock is ticking and there are only a few hours left before this round of our Three-Minute Fiction writing contest closes. All stories must be submitted by 11:59 Eastern Time tonight. Our Round 7 judge, Danielle Evans, issued this challenge: One character must come to town and one character must leave town. For the full rules go to npr.org/threeminutefiction.

The news and lifestyle website MamiVerse launched this summer. It features Latina journalists, writers, entrepreneurs and everyday moms who are just trying to keep it all together. The site is also for the moms' daughters and their families.

Linton Weeks investigates the end of an online game that built such a successful community around itself that its demise is causing a worried uprising.

The clock is ticking and we're one week into round seven of our Three-Minute Fiction writing contest. Author Danielle Evans is our judge this time around. Entries are due at 11:59 p.m. Sunday, September 25.

Two of America's oldest black fraternities will celebrate 100 years of brotherhood and civic action this month. Host Michel Martin discusses the relevance and history of these groups with Dwayne Murray, polemarch of Kappa Alpha Psi, and Lawrence Ross, author of The Divine Nine: The History of African-American Fraternities and Sororities.

There are countless ways to meet that special someone — through a friend, website, and even a set-up. For the past five years, The Washington Post has tried playing Cupid for residents of the nation's capital. Reporter Christina Breda Antoniades tells host Michel Martin about the history of this experiment called "Date Lab," and what it's like being its matchmaker extraordinaire.

As tourists are swarming to Washington D.C. this summer, The Washington Post Columnist John Kelly followed eighth graders from Centreville, Mich. to see the city through their eyes. Host Michel Martin speaks with John Kelly and Terry Miller, the teacher of the Centreville students, about the students' gains from their class trip, Washingtonians' love/hate relationship with tourists, and whether locals appreciate their cities in the same way tourists do.

Colorado Springs may not have an actual spring, but it does have a statue to its founder Gen. William Jackson Palmer. Sunday marks the 140th anniversary of the city's founding. Colorado Public Radio's Mike Lamp tells us about Palmer, whose statue is in the middle of a busy intersection.

Amy Dickinson describes the incident that makes her think of the sound of shovels penetrating hard dirt as part of our series Summer Sounds. Her dad once forced Amy, her sisters and a cousin to dig in the hot summer sun in the fruitless pursuit of saving a crop.

Cultural diplomacy usually comes in the form of a traveling art show or celebrity visit, but this summer the Kennedy Center is engaging in a deeper kind of diplomacy; a fellowship program that provides training for arts managers from around the world.

Los Angeles screenwriter Clifford Green contributes to our series "Summer Sounds" with the story of the quiet night on a lonely country lake where he heard nothing but his heartbeat.

From the Midwest to the Northeast, a brutal heat wave has pushed temperatures above 100 degrees in many areas this weekend. On Friday, more than 130 million people were living under a heat advisory. But while most people were moaning about the oppressive, humid heat, some were finding fun ways to stay cool.

"The enormity of the situation ... the pain of it all, is pretty insane," Zhou said in an emotional video posted to Instagram. A silver medalist in the team event, he was to compete again on Tuesday.

The newest addition to the National Mall is a monument honoring the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. Host Michel Martin discusses King's legacy and the memorial's meaning with Martin King III, the oldest son of the slain civil rights leader; and former United Nations Ambassador Andrew Young, a King confidant.

From physics meccas like Lawrence Livermore Lab to rock formations like Mammoth Cave and the Grand Canyon, there are plenty of ways to fit science into a summer getaway. National Geographic Traveler Editor-in-Chief Keith Bellows offers travel tips for a scientific summer vacation.

This week: Crime novelist George Pelecanos cases easy-to-break-into houses in Washington, D.C., with an accomplice: NPR reporter Elizabeth Blair.

Neda Ulaby reports that for all that comedy has faced since Sept. 11, reports that irony would fizzle out turned out to be greatly exaggerated. Comedy, like anything else, adapts.

The Newsweek editor looks at how women helped bring about peace in Liberia; how they're changing the state of marriage throughout Asia; and the rise of Christine Lagarde to the top of that notoriously male-dominated institution, the International Monetary Fund.

Comedian and actress Margaret Cho stops by for a Wisdom Watch conversation to talk about her life and how her personal background has influenced her career. Cho is now shooting the Lifetime TV series Drop Dead Diva and producing Yellow, an album about rage, age and ethnicity.