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On a dangerous night ride, a cavalry officer finds a missing trooper standing beside a fallen horse.
A pilot risks a solo flight to Mars, where a hidden survivor and a silent alien intelligence reveal why Earth’s missions never came home.
An aging servant’s daily walk with his mistress prompts a question about thirty-five years of loyalty—and an answer neither has voiced.
Ten travelers flee occupied Rouen, but their escape stalls when a Prussian officer makes one passenger’s body the price of everyone’s freedom.
A childhood memory of an old seamstress opens onto the secret act of courage that shaped her entire life.
When distant Corsica appears across the evening sea, an old traveler recalls a noblewoman who gave up society for lasting love.
A country doctor recounts the lifelong devotion of an itinerant chair mender to a village chemist.
On a train, a magistrate recognizes a former officer whose war injuries seem to confirm a familiar tale of lost love.
A child is blamed when a treasured porcelain figure vanishes from a plantation home.
A New Orleans agent visits a Louisiana plantation and grows close to a woman already engaged to a local painter.
Fifine takes her father's old fiddle to a plantation party, hoping it can help feed her family.
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 teenage mail carrier stops at a dance and finds that his horse and mailbag have vanished.
Sent to work for a Louisiana family, a young Indigenous woman longs for the woods but grows attached to their baby.
Pélagie saves for decades to rebuild the plantation house lost in the war, while her sister lives beside its ruins.
A plantation worker sets out for a week of visiting and stops at a sick boy's cabin.
An older woman refuses to leave the house she was given when freed from slavery.
A reckless English volunteer joins Greek fighters and survives a battle beside their grieving young leader.
Two devoted sisters face the terrible cost of loving an outlaw.
Two young artists quietly sacrifice for each other when money runs out and their shared creative life is threatened.
A carefree young heir must explain how he spends a thousand-dollar bequest before learning what the money may truly be worth.
Della has one dollar and eighty-seven cents, and one day left to buy her husband a Christmas present worth giving.
In a Greenwich Village artists' colony, a gravely ill young painter ties her fate to the last leaf on a neighboring vine.
