The Home Teacher
October 26, 2018[…] jumped from Brock to the fish in the clotted aquarium. “I’m a small fish in a eat-dog world. Always a bigger fish waiting at the next corner. I ain’t giving my bishop your mo—” […]
[…] jumped from Brock to the fish in the clotted aquarium. “I’m a small fish in a eat-dog world. Always a bigger fish waiting at the next corner. I ain’t giving my bishop your mo—” […]
[…] had been won under Bishop Williams’s direction. Next to the trophies was a colored map of the world with pins stuck where missionaries were. None were in France, his old mission. He tried to […]
[…] exhausted, often frustrated, but she never once wondered if it was worth it. Of course maybe the world just seemed more hopeful then. Last year an old boyfriend, Mark, who had just turned thirty-five, […]
[…] right out and said that, but close enough: “You’re a very sweet girl, Tracy. We think the world of you—we really do, but . . .” What we really think you ought to do […]
[…] for renewed residence at your institution. As your records will show, my father is a veteran of World War I, drafted and serving stateside for six months before that war’s close. • Shortly after […]
[…] hired Dad to train volunteers. It was then that Junie and I were initiated into a larger world. The PCVs, as we called the trainees, would go to Brazil, provided they got through Dad’s […]
[…] this assignment, child? I mean, Sarah the first has near half a billion real children populating the world she and Abraham made together, with well over a billion spirit kids just waiting to go. […]
[…] magenta silk, peacock hues swirling around the Mormon women—especially around the English converts. There was a whole world of greens and blues and purples outside his door, and for days at a time, he […]
[…] it’d never come to actual tears. Now, he just lay there, crying like the end of the world. “Bobbie,” I said. “Where’s that ring you bought me, huh?” I could tell the crying embarrassed […]
[…] say about Musa. When Leila feared her husband would send her back to her father’s home for breaking household rules, Amina rolled her eyes and insisted Musa loved her deeply. The problem was, he […]