The Morning After the Longest Night
In January 2010, Stephanie Decker of Henryville, Indiana, heard the freight-train roar every Midwesterner dreads. She threw herself over her two children in the basement...
This is stories & illustrations, drawing on Psalm 30.
In January 2010, Stephanie Decker of Henryville, Indiana, heard the freight-train roar every Midwesterner dreads. She threw herself over her two children in the basement as an EF4 tornado peeled their home apart board by board. A steel beam crushed both her legs. She lost them both below the knee. For months, Stephanie lay in a hospital bed staring at a ceiling, convinced her life as she knew it was over.…
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