The first snow of November fell the day Ethan Walker came home. The smell of roasted turkey drifted from his mother’s kitchen, laughter…
For twenty years Mai Nguyen had lived two lives at once. By day she was the quiet backbone of a modest neighborhood bakery…
Daniel and Amelia had been married for five years — five years of gentle mornings, warm evenings, and one haunting mystery:He had never…
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…
1) The Procession That Wouldn’t Move The sun on Jenny Clark’s wedding day was a blinding white.She sat in an ivory limousine outside…
1) Nine people on half a plane When the tail sheared off PacificWays 714 at thirty-three thousand feet, Ava Morgan had time only…
1) A line into the past A February night over Alaska is so quiet it feels like the sky has swallowed sound. On…
Under the scorching sun of a Texas summer in 1996, when the asphalt roads on the outskirts of San Antonio shimmered like a…
1. Snowfall and the Missing Number Five days after the Boeing 777 went down over Alaska’s Chugach Range, the snow had swallowed the…
The Last Flame Over Louisville The evening sky over Louisville was painted gold when UPS Flight 2976 taxied down the runway. From the…