If her father were alive, Christina Martinez knew, he would not approve of her riding in this car…
I.At 12:30 in the afternoon on Monday, June 25, 1990, lightning flashed above the Tonto National Forest near Payson, Arizona, about 100 miles northeast of Phoenix. It started a fire just south of the Mogollon Rim. Within an hour, the fire had spread over five acres. By 4:15 p.m., more than 100 acres of manzanita…
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A kind of laziness brings me back to normal life. I am like a prisoner who is enjoying an imaginary freedom while asleep; as he begins to suspect that he is asleep, he dreads being woke up, and goes along with the pleasant illusion as long as he can. — René…
1.In 1982 I was 16 and destroying my life. Or my life was falling apart, depending on how you portion out the responsibility. Me and my…
On the morning of Thursday, April 12, 2007, Wye Hale-Rowe watched out the window of the plane as U.S. Airways Flight 180 descended into Phoenix. She surveyed the landscape that unfolded on the ground below — blue swimming pools, elevated freeway interchanges, and a flat grid of streets studded with slender…
John Farrace pulls his car off the highway and onto the shoulder, stopping just a few feet away from a roadside memorial…
When I was six years old my best friend’s father killed himself. I remember overhearing my mother on the phone — things I wasn’t supposed to hear. Something about bloody glasses. Something about a gun. I didn’t know what it all meant until my mother sat me down. Suddenly, I was terrified that…
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