By the time she was back at her desk she was hot with shame and all too aware of the cold metal pressing into her. All afternoon the students were quiet, all of

Next morning dawned on a very tired Laura. Even just the events of the night before would have been enough to hinder her sleep, but trying to get back to sleep with the

When she woke to the cold bedroom she could still hear her cousin’s pained moans from all those years ago when she had first come out to Silver Lake, before a town

Laura heard a stove lid rattle. For one glorious instant she was in bed with Mary, and Pa was building the morning fire. Then she saw the white curtain and she knew where