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Category: Art and Literature
Poly-wood! Mormon Polygamy in the Movies
By Randy Astle Randy Astle is a writer and filmmaker in New York City. He has written numerous articles, and is nearly finished with a book on Mormon film. A TRIP TO SALT LAKE CITY Released during the Smoot Senate hearing, A Trip to Salt Lake City (1905) was both the first Mormon fiction …
And Thorns Will Grow There
By Emily Belanger Emily Belanger is a doctoral candidate at the University of Georgia in Athens, GA, where she lives with her husband. When she isn’t teaching, writing, or fending off Southern scorpions, she reads every fairy tale she can find. “And Thorns Will Grow There” took second place in the 2015 Sunstone Fiction Contest. …
Seriously—Why the Hell Can’t You Be More Like the Nelsons?: A Vulgar Response to Fine Art
By Theric Jepson THERIC JEPSON is a gentleman who does not talk like this in everyday life. He is the author of the novel Byuck. But he knows its appearance in this bio doesn’t mean any of you will ever read the damn thing. Cheapskates. This article makes mention of Tom Kimball who is in …
Communicable
By Anita Tanner Or right-click here to download the audio file: Communicable “Religion is like small pox. If you get a good dose, you wear scars.” —Vardis Fisher Dosage: Words stretch and elongate, strain and break from overuse, disintegrate or bind too tight, the life blood cut off from appendages, sermons …
Advent: Moose in Moonlight
By Anita Tanner Or right-click here to download the audio file: Advent: Moose in Moonlight …he hath no form nor comeliness; and when we shall see him there is no beauty that we should desire him. —Isaiah 53:2 …
In My Father’s House
By Cecil Morris Or right-click here to download the audio file: In My Father’s House The house that dementia built my father filled with people. It hummed with talk both day and night, a host of long lost relatives returned to relive stories he had never shared with me. Sometimes I was …
Four Paws Full
by R. A. Christmas Or right-click here to download the audio file: Four Paws Full Dog had his paws full. He’d run Bad Pup off because Bad wanted his job (and glory) but Bad took a third of of a litter with him. There was hell to pay, with Bad (The …
Still Mormon
By Dayna Patterson Or right-click here to download the audio file: Still Mormon 1. I’m Mormon the way stars—rubbed out at noon, robbed by sun—still burn 2. The way a geode empty of its quartz is still stone 3. The way a whisper is still a breath carved by tongue …
Articles of New Faith
By Heather Holland Or right-click here to download the audio file: Articles of New Faith Invocation. A novice—raging away from the charred and blistered home of my former faith— I am called by the air in my lungs and the dirt beneath my feet to stand and to breathe, to begin …