Alan Heathcock

After a week spent searching for and wondering about the missing plane, author Alan Heathcock revisits the young adult novel Hatchet, and Jonathan Evison suggests Songs for the Missing.

Smoke from the campfire swirls up into the darkness. I peer up through the woods, the black branches against the gray night, and wonder if I'm alone.

My imagination was forged by storytellers, my father spinning tales of decapitated coal miners running through fields of corn; my mother telling me, ...