
That memory gave structure to her plan. She would build a dugout, but not a simple hole. She would build one with a heating innovation…

Part 2 A few days passed in a strange suspended state. The discovery of the buggy brought exactly the outside attention the elders had feared.…

Part 2 Jack’s house sat quiet in the midday sun, a modest 2-story home in a Pacifica neighborhood where police officers and teachers lived side…

The house, he said, was like a man standing in a gale without a coat. It did not matter how much warmth that man might…

Thomas responded with the sort of frontier caution that often condensed years of bitter experience into a few words. Water ran off naturally until the…

She had learned the technique from her own mother, who had in turn learned it from a woman who had kept a farm alone in…

She existed in the household on terms that were not generous but functional, as long as the arrangement suited the adults who controlled the house.…

Croft almost smiled. Tar paper, he said, was $2 a roll, and she would need at least 4 rolls. Canvas was cheaper, 80 cents a…

He looked at her with something that might have been pity or might have been contempt. “You want my advice? Find a husband. Find a…

Ren stepped off the bus, her legs stiff from the long ride. The air hit her immediately, clean and sharp with the scent of pine…





