Honorable Mention: Butterflies
Trying to get to the nursery proper and all of the blooming plants—bright colors, heady smells, early summer at its best—Mona almost walked past his table. It was one of those fold-up numbers with foldout…
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Prophet by the Sea
One late afternoon just before sunset, the Prophet with white hair like the mane of a lion was walking by the sea with his friend, Fernando. They walked and talked about many things as the…
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Intimacy in a Three-Piece Suit | Victor L. Brown, Jr., Human Intimacy: Illusion & Reality
What is this human intimacy, this condition that human beings seek “at every stage of life .. . as urgently as we seek food and drink . . . this need so powerful that we…
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Wild Sage
I sit here by my gate, sniffing the stalk of sage in my hand, and wonder about the leaves drifting down on me. They float past my eyes and settle on my folded legs. Summer…
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The Whip: A Modern Folktale
Headed west, Brother and Sister Gustavson pushed their handcart for many miles singing, “Some must push and some must pull” before their miracle happened. They inherited a wagon -— all in the moment a hand…
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Bird of Paradise
A drum was beating that night as my family and I entered the elementary school gymnasium. Animal skins were stretched across a portion of hollowed-out tree, two flat brown hands pounding on their surface. Instantly…
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Dust to Dust: A Mormon Folktale
The morning promised no bright sun. No blue sky. Only dust from the desert’s chalky red soil. “Lord in heaven,” Rosalinda said to herself. She stared out the window, worried about her garden. She couldn’t…
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The Precarious Walk Away from Mormonism, All the Time With a Stitch in My Side
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CAUTION: Men in Trees by Darrell Spencer
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Where the Walls of the World Wear Thin: Red Water, by Judith Freeman
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Singing the Differences to Sleep: Grace Notes: The Waking of a Woman’s Voice by Heidi Hart
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