The sun was a white eye [music] in a brass sky. It hung over the dusty streets of Abalene, Kansas….
She hadn’t eaten in 2 days. Her trunk sat unopened beside her. The man who’d promised to meet her never…
May 1944 London A party is winding down in a Claridge’s hotel suite. The room is full of senior Allied…
She didn’t cry at the funeral. Not when they lowered her mother into the frozen Virginia ground. Not when the…
I got home from overseas at 2:13 in the morning, two weeks before anyone expected me. The key had barely…
The musicians had the bows up for the first dance when the Duke of San Mare turned away from his…
Thomas Vance rode two days on a horse too big for him, carrying an address he’d kept secret from his…
It was the kind of cold that cracked engine blocks and froze the pity right out of you. Sheree should…
The first time Llaya Hart backed into me and whispered, “Stay like this.” I was standing perfectly still in a…
Society did not bury unmarried women. It seated them beside the wall, gave them someone else’s gloves to hold, and…