It was real cold that night, not just Miami cold, and it was late. I'd had to wait until the girls were asleep to go out into the pre-Christmas lunacy of the mall because my wife and I were keeping up ... [+]
Susan has written 8 picture books. Silver City's Idaho Hotel is a real place where, some have said, you can still hear kids playing marbles. "Finding Silver City" is in Short Circuit #07, Short Édition's quarterly review.
Sarah bounced as the SUV hit another rough patch on the dirt road into Silver City. "Just look at this place!" her dad exclaimed, taking photos of one rundown building after another. "You wanted the real deal," her mom replied, driving slowly down the street. "Well, here it is: an honest-to-goodness ghost town." Sarah sighed. While her friends were off enjoying theme parks and waterskiing on the lake, her parents had planned a road trip through the old west. Make that the OLD WEST. Her dad always said the words as if they were spelled with capital letters. Mom parked next to a large wooden bui