By Ryan Shoemaker Ryan Shoemaker’s story collection Beyond the Lights is forthcoming from No Record Press. T.C. Boyle called it a collection that “moves effortlessly from brilliant comedic pieces to stories of deep emotional resonance.” Ryan’s work has appeared in Gulf Stream, Santa Monica Review, Booth, Juked, and Silk Road. Find him at RyanShoemaker.net. …
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Experiences of a Borderlands Bishop
By D. Jeff Burton This column collects some emails I exchanged with “Bishop Thomas,” who is responsible for a large ward outside Utah. (Names and some details have been changed to protect identities.) I’ve communicated with “Borderland” bishops in the past but this is the first time one has agreed to share his story. …
Braving the Borderlands: Mysterious Ways
By D. Jeff Burton In this column I share the story of Jennifer and her husband as they struggle to adapt to Borderland life during some rather large changes. In addition to editing and shortening our many emails, I have changed names and details to protect identities. Jennifer: My husband, John, a school principal …
How They Get You
By Josh Allen THIS ALL STARTED because of Hal Jenkins. That’s the first thing I want to say. Hal’s a Mormon bishop, and he lives around the corner from me on Silver Sage Drive. He’s like fifty, and he wears a suit and a tie all the time. And a white shirt. Always a …
Angina: Fiction
By Helen Walker Jones After Magnum, P.I., Myrna Kaufusi walked upstairs to her bedroom. Originally designed as a maid’s room, it wasn’t much bigger than a walk-in closet. She pulled open her dresser drawer, found her old orange bikini, and laid it on her new quilt with its puffy, three-dimensional blocks. Watching that old …
A Season in the Wilderness
By Larry Menlove Larry Menlove’s work has appeared in Irreantum, Dialogue, Torrey House Press, and other venues. He writes from Utah and chases the shade from one tree to the next. He is trying to shake a novel out of the maple he’s currently under. The day it began, I ate the bran muffin, …