Women of the Desert by Jaclyn Maria Fowler

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…