Authentic Roads

Margaret Ellis was born in 1958, and by the time she turned sixty-eight, she had stopped counting the

Marissa Coyle had been standing at the kitchen counter in her house outside Dayton, Ohio, for almost

By Monday I was supposed to drive him back to the shelter. Even now, typing this out, I'

The groundskeeper at Fairview National Cemetery outside Springfield, Missouri, has seen a lot of strange

Marissa heard the garage door rumble at 6:42. She didn’t move from the kitchen doorway. She’d been standing

I hadn't spoken to Preston Kessler in eleven months when I walked into that conference room on the

At the dinner table, my daughter was telling her friends how well she'd gotten her household running.

I married Robert the June I turned twenty-three, working the front desk at a dental practice in Dayton, Ohio.

Marcy Kowalczyk found out her marriage was over from a text message that arrived while she was restocking

The bell over the door at Marge's Diner used to jingle every Sunday at eight, right when I'