Wild Sage
April 17, 2018[…] promised. As soon as this lie was over, we’d start again. Never, ever, would there be a breaking of this promise. And that’s when the leaves started to fall. While I sat in the […]
[…] promised. As soon as this lie was over, we’d start again. Never, ever, would there be a breaking of this promise. And that’s when the leaves started to fall. While I sat in the […]
My humble plan for the financial salvation and exaltation of every soul who has the sense to sign up I have seen a vision. I have become a new man. And boy, am I excited! […]
A drum was beating that night as my family and I entered the elementary school gymnasium. Animal skins were stretched across a portion of hollowed-out tree, two flat brown hands pounding on their surface. […]
[…] 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 […]
“We Mormons lack ‘joy in the Lord,’” Bishop Lewis told his counselors and the ward secretary at the start of bishopric meeting on Palm Sunday morning. They listened attentively. “The name of Jesus is […]
[…] lean-to, drunken, falling down in the darkness, cursing the rain, the wind, each other, the three men searched for the tarp, their cursing rising to meet the pitch of the storm. The creek rose, […]
[…] sons, two daughters. This is what the Lord had offered them and what they had offered the world. They called Stacy first; she would know how they should tell the others. Jesse would probably […]
[…] attacked the remaining foot, pumping her elbows as if trying to eradicate every Satanic stain in the world. Damp snail curls of hair clung to her forehead and cheeks. Even after she switched to […]
[…] as big as cars, lay black and cold, nearly invisible. Having searched since the beginning of the world, this devil found the man in a clapboard house on the edge of an Idaho town […]
[…] right with our son. What was the loss of a leg when he was alive and the world still before him to conquer. With his own special gifts of nature, it would be easier […]