Helen Walker Jones
HELEN WALKER JONES teaches English part-time at BYU and at Salt Lake Community College. Her work has appeared in Harper's, dmarron Review, Wisconsin Review, Wittenberg Review, Richmond Quarterly, Florida Review, Indiana Review, Gargoyle, Nebraska Review, and many other journals. She and her husband, Walter, are the parents of two grown children and the grandparents of baby Quincy.
A Proselytor’s Dream
Articles/Essays – Volume 14, No. 1
Mary Mahoney, a devout Catholic, left Kentucky and came west to Basalt, Idaho, where she met her future husband on the steps of the old LDS ward house. She was a Mormon for the remaining…
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Articles/Essays – Volume 16, No. 3
In those Idaho summers, Maggie drove a tractor and sat on her hands in the movies, hiding her callouses from the fresh-faced college boys she dated. She worried about her peeling nose and ate nothing…
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Articles/Essays – Volume 23, No. 3
I remember that day perfectly—every violet plum with its orange smudges, the rim of the huge blue canning kettle smeared with thick yellow slime and little tatters of purple peel. It was the day I…
Read moreSaturday Evening, Sunday Afternoon
Articles/Essays – Volume 36, No. 2
At thirty-eight I’m still single. Actually, let me be perfectly frank: Possibly Steve Young and I are the only people in the Western Hemisphere who have remained celibate until such an advanced age, and he…
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