I was thirteen when I fell for a nineteen-year-old who dressed like James Dean and made me feel like the most important girl in the world. He taught me how to drive, brought me little gifts, and…
The gas station sat quiet at three in the morning, just a lonely island of light on the Nebraska highway. Charles Starkweather had come back for the stuffed dog he couldn’t afford, and now he stood in the cold air with a shotgun in his hands, forcing the manager, Robert Calvert, to open the safe. … Read more