A Thousand Reasons
It’s stupid to try to walk through the desert from Painted Rocks to Tucson with only half a bottle of water in your handbag. But Carrie is doing so anyway – or is she? [Vignette]
April 17, 2003
Novel-in-Stories: Their Promised Land
A Letter For My Daughter
Going cold turkey in a lonely motel room, trying to rid herself of cocaine addiction, Carrie writes a letter to the daughter she does not yet have.
June 12, 2003
That Which Cannot Be Broken
When Carrie is a witness to bikers assaulting a man, she has to make yet another choice about life or death.
September 7, 2003
Shadows In The Shape Of Men
In a boarding house on the Pacific Coast, Carrie meets a potential new friend whose scars may rival her own.
December 7, 2003
Portrait of a Killer
Carrie has finally ditched both drugs and her violent boyfriend. Is it time to get rid of her gun, too?
February 13, 2004
Scars of Our Civil Wars
Carrie becomes obsessed with finding out the fate of one Anna Lee Shepherd – a teenage survivor from a destructive Civil War raid.
April 23, 2004
