Author: tunganhtr

Clara Vogel spent the last five dollars she owned on four stone walls with no roof. The clerk in Russell, Kansas, looked at the coins…

For three years, Joanna Hayes watched truck after truck climb the ridge above Oak Haven carrying granite. By the second year, people had stopped asking…

Snow had been falling over Ashen Creek for three days when Mara Whitlock lost the last roof she could call hers. Edwin Crowther stood inside…

The first winter after James Callaway died, Ren learned that a stove could burn perfectly and still fail a family. James had been killed in…

The wind stopped first. That was what Cora Whitfield remembered later. Not the snow. Not the cold. The silence. She stood on a rocky slope…

Cora Nell Bassett spent forty dollars on the cow because everyone else had already decided what she was worth. It was October of 1981 in…

In the autumn of 1872, the people of Otter Hollow watched a young widow bury forty-two pumpkins in the snow. Not slice them for drying….

Cora Nell Bassett spent forty dollars on the cow because everyone else had already decided what she was worth. It was October of 1981 in…

In the autumn of 1872, the people of Otter Hollow watched a young widow bury forty-two pumpkins in the snow. Not slice them for drying….