The Storm Cellar on Maple Road
Margaret Shelton was hanging laundry in her backyard in Moore, Oklahoma, when the sky turned the color of a bruise. It was May 20, 2013,...
This is stories & illustrations, drawing on Psalm 91:1-2.
Margaret Shelton was hanging laundry in her backyard in Moore, Oklahoma, when the sky turned the color of a bruise. It was May 20, 2013, and the EF5 tornado was already carving a seventeen-mile path through the city. She had ninety seconds. Maybe less. Margaret did not stand in the yard and hope. She did not negotiate with the wind.…
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