The Walker
March 21, 2018[…] which still stood at the time of my first driver’s education course and which maybe even stands today. So we were all in this white Dodge, trying to get our licenses, and Joe Mattie […]
[…] which still stood at the time of my first driver’s education course and which maybe even stands today. So we were all in this white Dodge, trying to get our licenses, and Joe Mattie […]
[…] too fast! We weren’t done!” “I’m sorry,” I said. “I lied. I didn’t really want to come today.” Carron looked confused. “It’s all right, man. I don’t think you lied.” I laughed, and sent […]
[…] house. That fall Bob turned fifteen and got a part-time job at the Cascade Print Shop cutting stock, printing wedding invitations on a small job press, and cleaning up every evening. A man named […]
[…] zucchini bread, but it also felt distinctly irreligious. Like chatting about temple ceremonies down at the corner market. Mary’s life was private and sacred. And his. For him. But once he started, he couldn’t […]
[…] to the counter between his elbows. Domlik withdrew a Marlboro from the packet he’d stolen from an American volunteer and savored the dry texture of the filterless butt on his lips. He allowed himself […]
[…] change radio stations. But Preston was just a small place—all the towns were except Logan. Very occasionally, news would break over the back fences of violent jealousies and scandals, always prompting Uncle Leo, when […]
[…] impetuously decided to reconsider that morning: the production of a scholarly article on the image of the American cowboy in the popular fiction of the early twentieth century. But the flashing scene outside the […]
[…] appraisal: Her family was poor and uneducated and proud. Therefore, in the cruel calculus of small-town sexual politics, she was someone not to be encouraged romantically be cause the proper thing for someone of […]
[…] soil were in demand until death. The contribution of the grandmother was great to such a family. Today it is obvious by its absence, especially when a new mother is far from her mother […]
[…] are also Mulder’s Among the Mormons, Alvin R. Dyer’s The Refiner’s Fire, Richard Vetterli’s Mormonism, Americanism, and Politics, and histories for young people by Skousen, Nephi Anderson, and others. More recent histories range from […]