The sun hadn’t touched the desert yet when Eddie Garza pulled the wooden crate from the discard pile. It was…
The laughter cut through Dutton’s Dry Goods like a slap, and the little girl in the faded gray dress went…
The bell over the diner door on Western Avenue [music] rang for the first time in 3 days, and the…
The Red Dust Diner had three things going for it in August of 1958. Good coffee, strong enough to strip…
Standing on the train platform, Abigail swallowed the bitter regret-laced dust of the Wyoming plains. She was a heavy woman…
Lenora Pike didn’t even look up from her ledger. “No room.” she said. Mara Bellamy stood in the doorway of…
Bleak mountain winds and a stolen $3 train ticket were all Rosalie Preston had left when she walked into Bitter…
The widow was only seconds away from freezing to death when the mountain man opened his cabin door and said…
Margaret Ellison slammed her last three silver dollars onto the auctioneers’s table so hard the coins bounced. The crowd went…
Rosalyn Mercer slammed her last 11 cents on the counter so hard the coins bounced. “I am not begging,” she…