The most terrifying thing I can think of is being alone - and I mean utterly alone, like no one else in the world alone - at night. That's the nucleus of the first story in my collection and it's also where the title came from for the book.
“My goal with the Canadian border is the same goal I have for Japan and Korea.”
“While in El Paso, I met Mr. Clinton Burk, a native of Texas, who I married in August 1885.”