Beggar's Crossing — Createspace

The town had been old when the desert was young. It was called Beggar's Crossing, though it hadn't always been. There were hundreds of stories about the town's origins, some came close to the truth, but all of them were wrong. For as long as there had been people, this place had drawn them to it…the wanderers…the pilgrims…the lost souls. Nobody understood why they came, and nobody stayed for long.