Elsa Weber sat in the cellar of what used to be a bakery, clutching her seven-year-old nephew, Lukas, against her side. Above them,…

The obstetrics consultation room at St. Jude’s Medical Center smelled of rubbing alcohol and cold, recycled air. It was a sterile scent that…

The wind howled through the peaks of the Colorado Rockies, a mournful sound that rattled the frosted windows of the cabin. It was…

My husband laughed when he told me he had canceled all my credit cards. “Now you’ll have to ask me for money,” he…

I was sold on a Tuesday afternoon, under the relentless glare of the Montana sun, for five thousand dollars in cash. There was…

At 2:13 AM, deep in the obsidian blackness of the Nevada basin, Thomas “Tom” Harris felt the vibration in the floorboards of the…

“My neighbor insisted she kept seeing my daughter at home during school hours… so I pretended to leave for work and hid under…

Elara was eight years old, and she knew everything about mud. She knew how it froze into jagged ruts in January, how it…

For Emi, a twenty-two-year-old former schoolteacher from Tokyo who had found herself stranded in the colony when the invasion began, the heat was…

At Camp 19, a hastily erected U.S. Army processing center for Prisoners of War, the mud was the only thing that connected the…