The girl with a dark birthmark that spread across one side of her face and neck married a farmer man who was known to be big, slow, and rough. People did not know about their married life until….
The bus rattled down the gravel road, its windows streaked with dust as the late summer sun slanted across the fields. Clara pressed her thin hands against her lap, clutching a small cloth bag that carried her few belongings. At thirty-one, she had long accepted that she was considered “unmarriageable” in her town. Not because … Read more