
Part 1 Most men in the southern Colorado coalfields learned early that there were two kinds of darkness. There was the darkness underground, the honest…

Part 1 The first thing Helen noticed about the clinic was how clean it looked from the street. Not truly clean. Not the kind of…

Part 1 At 0400 on 23 March 1943, on the high plateau east of El Guettar in Tunisia, Friedrich Freiherr von Broich sat in his…

Part 1 At 0600 on January 24, 1943, Lieutenant Commander Dudley Morton stood in the cramped conning tower of USS Wahoo and watched a Japanese…

Part 1 The morning Declan Tierney died, the wind had gone strangely still over Hatteras. Nessa noticed that first. She came downstairs at 4:15 the…

Part 1 Wren Casey stood on the front porch looking at the black garbage bag for so long that the cold went through the canvas…

Part 1 The morning Richard Harrison ended his marriage began with coffee and cinnamon. Linda had woken before dawn the way she always did, quietly…

Part 1 By the time Sage Marlowe was twenty-one, she could tell what country she was in by the smell of the trees after rain.…

Part 1 The first cold snap of November settled over Asheville like a punishment. By midnight the strip mall behind Tunnel Road had gone dark…

Part 1 The duffel bag was already packed when Cora Vance came home. It sat on the front porch of Aunt Della’s little white shingled…





