conclusion of Agnes Hand  The next week was tortuous for Agnes. She couldn’t avoid Olivia and she couldn’t find Woody. Her fiancé wasn’t in any in any of their usual meeting spots — the Merryland  (the

“Aggie, what are you doing? “He groaned. “You don’t know how I feel.”              Agnes knew how he felt because she felt the same way. But something else was at stake. Her vanity.             Keeping one hand

Agnes was speechless. Cora was a genius.              “This is between us,” Cora’s voice brought her back to the present. She was using her Coraline voice              “Of course!” This had come straight from Agnes’s heart. She’d

That’s Not Love! (a Harshbarger Mills story, 1944)               That’s Not Love!             Agnes works at First Mills Bank; she’s the teller at Window Number One. She’s always early because it’s a short walk from the house

She nearly fell down on the cellar stairs yesterday, but she caught herself on the railing that someone had had the sense to attach when Mother was still alive and clutching it saved her life.

Part 1  Char Glimmer sits on her porch in a ladder-backed chair, waiting for a familiar face to drive her to the doctor. She is wearing a navy -blue shirtwaist and around her shoulders is