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Bryan StalderKansas City, Spring 1933 Matthew Orr had learned that government buildings all smelled the same—floor wax, damp wool, and paper handled by too many hands. The new Jackson County Courthouse…
Bryan StalderHistorical fiction written by Bryan Stalder Kansas City, Winter 1933 Matthew Orr sat at his desk as the afternoon light settled in the narrow office, catching on the edges of…
Bryan StalderHistorical fiction written by Bryan StalderKansas City, Fall 1932 By the time The Northeast News had published its first ten issues, the 1932 presidential election was in full swing. Campaign…
Bryan StalderHistorical fiction written by Bryan Stalder Kansas City, Summer 1932 Matthew Orr lasted exactly four hours in the mill at Sheffield Steel.That was long enough to misplace his lunch pail,…
adminMarch 18, 1943Kansas City, MO The headlines used words like buried alive, sun treatment, starvation, and deprivation. The papers were no longer simply reporting the news. They were serving a…
adminJuly 2, 1942Washington D.C. In July of 1942, I was living and working in Washington, D.C., as a teletypist at TWA. Shifts stretched twelve hours or more, rotating day into…
adminJune 8, 1940 On the train to Washington, D.C., the morning of my nineteenth birthday, I had nothing but time. Time to watch the bright green fields slip past the…
adminThis story is a work of historical fiction set against the backdrop of the 1934 Municipal Election in KCMO, a day that came to be known as “Bloody Election Day.”…
adminMarch 20, 1924Kansas City, MO When Frank Pulliam crashed into my mother Marjorie’s life, chaos followed close behind. What began as disruption became a chain reaction, spreading outward and stealing…
adminJune 9, 1921Kansas City, MO Eddie slipped out of the shadowy alley where he’d been hiding ever since he’d left the apartment on Park Avenue. His mother had just given…
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