Jim Shepard

On her first day at the Harris School, seven-year-old Alice Elinor Hays told her seatmate Sadie at recess that she might as well begin by stating her situation, then explained where she lived, offered her parents’ and housekeeper’s names, and said she intended to be class Monitor. After Sadie … Continue Reading

Two days after Josiah Chase’s eighth birthday had been marked by a raisin cake and a game of roundelay with his seven siblings, his father’s elder half-brother Ezekiel had appeared from out of the west, occasioning a great stir. Ezekiel had traveled the Pennsylvania frontier as a chain-bearer with … Continue Reading