EMTs learned to love brave patients–they weren’t nearly such a pain in the ass as the whiners–but not to trust them. In the name of courage, they would hide symptoms, not ask for help when...

Since joining the National Park Service fourteen years ago, Anna had worked every Fourth of July. … Winding her way through the masses, trying not to get her fragile frame jostled, she realized she preferred...

Anna… envied Joan’s deep connection with the human race. She was a member of the club. Anna was half convinced she’d been begotten by a passing alien life-form on a human woman. It was as...

Anna drove with the window rolled down, breathing in the essence of autumn: an exhalation of a forest readying itself for sleep, a smell so redolent with nostalgia a pleasant ache warmed her bones and...

From long experience she knew that she wore her loneliness like armor. Very few people ever recognized it for what it was. To the casual observer it looked very much like arrogance. Sometimes it was.