Category: News

The first time she tried to send my children away, she did it with a calm voice and a practical expression, like she was discussing…

THE FOREST BEFORE TÂRGOVIȘTE Part 1 The boy learned the sound of power before he understood the shape of it. It was not the sound…

THE SILENCE OF LAMBAY Part 1 The bell on Lambay Island had been cast before Sister Brigid was born. It was not a beautiful bell….

The room went silent so fast it felt like the air had been sucked out through the cracks in the windows. One second there had…

The letter was waiting for me in the middle of the kitchen table like a trap someone had set out in broad daylight. The house…

THE BLACK PANTHERS OF PATTON’S ARMY Part 1 October came to France with rain in its teeth. It slicked the roads until the mud shone…

THE BRIDGE THAT REFUSED TO DIE Part 1 On the morning of March 7, 1945, the Rhine looked less like a river than a wound….

The first thing I noticed when I walked into my mother’s house that night was that Mike was sitting in my father’s old recliner like…

THE SALUTE Part 1 The cold came down on Lorraine like a punishment. It did not fall the way rain fell, or snow, or artillery….