[…] Melvin and Wesley drop their weapons. “So you’re going to die!” I do one of my old world accents, “says someone to a flagging J. Golden Kimball, ‘don’t worry. You’ll get everything that’s coming […]
[…] three days later. “You are Estevan Aju’s father?” he asked. “Yes.” “I’ve come from Tecpan.” “You have news of Estevan—is he all right?” The missionary looked down, shook his head. “Dead,” he said. “Muerto?” […]
[…] had a similar discussion a few weeks earlier. “Don’t be silly,” she had snorted after the evening news. “Dan Rather is not God. You think it ain’t been hot before? People said the dust […]
[…] demands of scholarly truth with the facticity of revealed word. Politicians must acknowledge the brethren. The Mormon world is made that way. So this story is an artifact of truth, built on evidence and […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] esoteric explanations: sins of thought, the pernicious influence of the media, the rise of communism, the new world order, demonic possession. Our conversations foundered as they insisted with growing desperation that there must be […]
Once, when I was twenty-one and fretting about my future, my aunt said, “Why, you have the world by the tail! You can have anything you want!” Today I feel that I have the […]
[…] no longer bear the remoteness of his soul. And then, after the Mormon missionaries found him, the world was not as it once seemed to be. Father Dejardin shook Luis’s shoulder lightly. “Luis, morning […]
[…] man with three other wives and nine children. He was over fifty. The night I heard the news, I started to cry. I tried to get Sharlene to explain it to me. She told […]
[…] into the scenery at the bay that she began to think less and less of the outside world. She lived in the moment in a way that few people have dreamed possible, much less […]