Who Brought Forth This Christmas Demon
March 20, 2018[…] cried and finally, in a tired and quiet voice, let the word “divorce” creep out into their world, Tim hung up the phone, scratched his belly, and went into the pantry. He for aged […]
[…] cried and finally, in a tired and quiet voice, let the word “divorce” creep out into their world, Tim hung up the phone, scratched his belly, and went into the pantry. He for aged […]
[…] startles me—I didn’t hear her come up. “What are you smiling about?” she teases. She seems happier today. “Me?” I say. “No, Harry,” she says. That’s what we nicknamed Jenn’s friend. What an ape. […]
[…] adversary in his strongest hour, and they need us, brothers and sisters, to bring them into this world.” The words crackle in Jackie’s ears. An ardor fills her breast. Later that day, she discards […]
[…] her feathers plucked out. My hips start to crack as if my private parts are a tree breaking under the weight of a storm. Still I push. I can’t not push. Sister Patty is […]
[…] a room stacked full of gold bars.” My father worked for Kennecott that summer. It was the world’s largest open-pit mine. “Was it a big room?” I asked. “Not very,” he said. “Like the […]
[…] at the corners of their angular confections to make the reward last, eating half and then, finally, breaking the spell of their pleasure by bargaining for the better half of another sweet, held aloft […]
[…] English, after which she taught these subjects at Snow College for a year. Wanting to see the world, she took a tour of Europe, followed by a month and a half in Greece, two […]
[…] it important to prove the Mormon doctrine that “the wicked go to . . . a spirit world prison house after mortal death” (p. 251), he cites Isaiah 24:22 as support: “And they shall […]
[…] position to be more selective in what is to be included and excluded under the rubric “Mormon Americana.” Selection, even in a highly defined subject, is never perfect. The editor disagrees with the compiler’s […]
[…] of communication—perhaps a last resort means—but nonetheless, a statement that accumulated injustices have driven men to the breaking point and that other forms of communication have proven unavailable. The country has taken significant steps […]