Author: tunganhtr

Part 1 The gunshot cracked across the Wyoming plain just as Emma Richardson decided she could no longer keep her children alive. She dropped to…

Part 1 The pounding on Lydia Finn’s door came past midnight, which was the only hour anyone in Marlow ever came to her anymore. By…

Part 1 Sarah Holden was on her knees in the frozen road, scraping burnt kernels of corn from the dirt, when Ethan Callaway first saw…

Part 1 There is a silence that only comes when something is dying. Silas Drifter had heard it three times in his life. The first…

Part 1 The day Oak Haven tried to sell Clariel Higgins, spring had made a liar of itself. It was April in the Colorado Territory,…

Part 1 The notice was printed in the Millbrook Gazette on a wet Thursday in March of 1881, tucked between a listing for seed corn…

Part 1 The man who came walking up Rachel Dunn’s lane on a cold Oregon morning looked like the sort of man who had already…

Part 1 Jedediah Walker had seen smoke rise from a hundred lonely places in the Wind River Range, but never from Abernathy’s ruined cabin in…

Part 1 Alma Prior stepped down from the coach in Whatcom County with one trunk, one carpetbag, and a folded matrimonial notice that had spent…