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Thoenn & Yeva Glover    My world ever since I can remember has been divided between what I think I know and what I know I will never understand. My mother often told me, “Alex, you will never understand because you will never be a mother.” Ever...

It is January end when my husband and I drive from Munnar to Kodaikanal (162 km) via Madurai.  If it is all about tea plantations in Munnar, the road to Madurai passes coffee, pepper and vast cardamom plantations.  As we go further, we come...

Hood, California, is a farming town of 200 souls, crammed up against a levee that protects it from the Sacramento River. The eastern approach from I-5 and the Sacramento suburb of Elk Grove is bucolic. Cows graze. An abandoned railroad track sits atop...

Word Count: 8970 A Study in Temperament It was Paul’s afternoon to appear before the faculty of the Pittsburgh High School to account for his variousmisdemeanors. He had been suspended a week ago, and his father had called at the Principal&rsquo...

When Detective Webster Coninck arrives at the murder scene outside Tups Tavern, he quickly identifies the body: Tom Johanssen. Former classmate, full of charisma, and a man with enough enemies to line up interviews into next week. Webb finds himself...