A name you know. A mood you’re in. Ten minutes to yourself. Start anywhere.
How quickly the story moves.
A boarding-house owner decides how to handle her daughter’s relationship with one of her lodgers.
A boy waits for news of an ailing priest and struggles to understand the adults’ uneasy silences.
Two Dublin men arrange a meeting with a servant, and one spends the evening waiting for news.
A child is blamed when a treasured porcelain figure vanishes from a plantation home.
An artist wants to sketch a Cajun fisherman, but the man's daughter worries how strangers will portray him.
With her husband away at war, a lonely young wife grows close to a visiting neighbor.
A woman estranged from her son takes in a sick child after a family party.
A farmer goes to a country ball to escape indecision about marriage and meets a woman with plans of her own.
A woman is surprised by her attraction to the friend her husband has invited to stay.
With her brother sick and her father avoiding work, Lolotte takes a cotton delivery into her own hands.
A shopkeeper develops feelings for a married locksmith and struggles with what her priest calls sin.
Hearing that his former love is struggling, Doudouce travels to see her and her family.
A boy shelters an injured wanderer while his Louisiana family faces losing the money for his schooling.
On Easter morning, three children take flowers from a recluse's hill, drawing him back toward the village.
A fisherman becomes fixated on a visitor he hears playing the church organ.
At a Cajun ball, a farmer watches the woman he loves draw the attention of a wealthy planter.
A plantation store clerk grows attached to a young woman whose family depends on the planter's credit.
A woman who has feared crossing the bayou since childhood must help a boy hurt on her side of it.
A shopkeeper spends his earnings on his sister's hopes of becoming an opera singer.
A young man is pushed out of the only home he has known after his guardian dies.
A young mother at a Louisiana plantation sees her husband's love vanish as rumors spread about their baby.
A traveler finds an old acquaintance trapped in an abusive marriage in a remote Louisiana cabin.
A planter's challenge to a segregated school sends its teacher to New Orleans, where their conflict follows her.
An enslaved young woman refuses the marriage her mistress has chosen and falls in love with another man.
