Author: tunganhtr

When Their Schedule Allowed I was in the hospital for weeks and I almost died. Not one person in my family came to visit me,…

Final Approval Authority At my father’s wake, my sister pointed at my dress blues and ordered me to find a corner. I had paid his…

The night Jonah Everly died, the fire would not burn properly. That was the detail Sable remembered most. Not the wind. Not the January darkness….

In September of 1883, while the homesteaders of Klamath County, Oregon, were stacking firewood against their cabins and repairing chimneys before winter, Park Junho was…

Three weeks after burying her husband, Adelaide Thorne boarded a train west with her seven-year-old daughter, a folded leather map, and a piece of iron…

Daisy Cole was eighteen years old when her uncle decided she had become an expense he no longer wished to carry. He called her into…

Aina Virtanen arrived in Silver Hook Gulch in October of 1883 with two trunks, a seven-year-old daughter, and a promise she had no intention of…

The first warning came in October of 1882. The wind dropped out of the Bitterroot Mountains colder than it should have been, and the old…

The first time Silas Blackwood saw Ilara cutting marsh grass in late autumn, he assumed she had finally run out of sensible work. She was…