Todd Robert Petersen

Todd Robert Petersen, a fiction writer and satirist for The Sugar Beet

The Investigator

Articles/Essays – Volume 57, No. 1

We shall be driven to great extremities. I know not what to think of it. Daniel Defoe, Journal of a Plague Year By the end of the fifth wave, people didn’t want to hear about…

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When the Brightness Seems Most Distant

Articles/Essays – Volume 30, No. 3

“It might not be a problem,” she said to her husband before rolling onto her stomach with a pillow clutched in her arms. She was tired from crying and wished sleep would overcome her. Though…

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One Method of Hope

Articles/Essays – Volume 31, No. 3

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The Charity of Silence

Articles/Essays – Volume 33, No. 1

This is the story of my father’s demise. It wanders when I tell it, and I never know when to bring in the polygamy, so I just do and let matters take care of themselves.…

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Good News for Fiction Readers: Vernal Promises by Jack Harrell and The Conversion of Jeff Williams by Douglas Thayer

Articles/Essays – Volume 38, No. 1

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