I forgot my passport. A trivial detail, as small as a paperclip, but one that could drag my entire Paris business trip down…
The wreckage of Flight 228 lay like the broken skeleton of a leviathan across the frozen plain of Wyoming’s Bighorn Mountains. The crash…
David Miller, a 35-year-old software engineer American from California, was sitting on the flight from Washington D.C. to Tokyo. He was flying this…
Emily Thompson, a 22-year-old American girl from New York, was sitting at JFK airport, waiting for her flight to Washington D.C. She had…
My name is Alex Rivera, an eighteen-year-old young man wandering amidst the cold streets of New York, where neon lights sparkle like stray…
My name is Emily Thompson, living in a peaceful suburban area of New York City. My husband, John, is a typical American software…
To this day, every time she hears dogs barking from the lawn behind the neighborhood, Mara still feels her heart tighten a little,…
I arrived at my son’s wedding reception exactly at 5 p.m., when the June sun glazed the Riverside Hotel’s glass with a thin…
Ella Ruiz tightened the straps on her medical rucksack as the UH-60 helicopter dropped onto the field pad. The wind cut her face…
I married Mira in early fall, a warm noon at the Multnomah County courthouse in Portland. I was sixty-one, Mira twenty-one—forty years like…