#1: Across the Street | By KENDAL A. RAUTZHAN
#2: Cremains | By JOYCE WOLF

“There was a small piece of me that thought he might kill me, now that he knew I’m Jewish.”
London, England | July 24, 2006 | By MARILYN MILLSTONE

“Two men in suits stood on my porch, displaying their FBI badges. I was grateful that I had my clothes on.”
Oklahoma and California | 1966 to 1969 | By MARILYN KENTZ

“I was the subject of a study at the University of Connecticut, and learned there that I lack the ability to differentiate between different voices.”
1994 | University of Connecticut | By SCOT NOLAN

“Suddenly, I felt exhausted. How could I talk about this to a stranger, a citizen of the country that had nearly killed my mother?”
June 2007 | Piran, Slovenia | By ROZ LEISER

“The Civil Rights movement was in its embryonic stage and, sad to say, my Caucasian family was fully ensconced in the racial divide.”
May 1957 and November 2002 | Lynn, Massachusetts | By GAIL LOWE

“I made it halfway across the street before I heard the loud thump of the front grill of a Plymouth Mercury connect with my rear end.”
March 2005 | Washington, DC | By MAURA JUDKIS

“I consider a suicide note and reject it. I don’t care to say anything, and it doesn’t matter, for I’m nearly gone already.”
May 2002 | Berkeley, California | By TONY LEE

“At the same age that I began to exoticize Brazil, Rosie began to be commodified by its flaws.”
February through June, 2005 | Brazil | By LEIGHNA HARRISON

“The Scottish Marine shook his head. ‘Captain, please, there are women and children here.’”
Spring 2000 | San Diego/San Isidro-Tijuana border crossing | By PENELOPE JAMES