Several generations of women—mothers and daughters, sisters and aunties and nieces—gathered, cooking over an open fire behind the high walls…
Exposure by James Patterson
It wasn’t until I rode over Pumpkin Vine Hill in a snowstorm that I earned my stripes as a motorcycler.…
The Almighty Zero Kilometer by Anthony Bain
The Spanish province of Palencia is an unwelcoming place during Spring. Dense fog and snow drifts cover the roads; some…
Mud, Fingers, and Fire by Rachel Hoffman
Women’s Work… In West Africa, women make pottery. They mine the mud, age it into clay, wedge it to align…
Mr Cricket by JJ Mazzucotelli
In Bejing China at a man who introduced himself as Mr. Cricket’s home. He trains crickets to fight, and he…
High Water by B.A. Van Sise
Standing at the road side in the hot July sun in Gettysburg, it gives me a certain guilty pleasure to…