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. …
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Mothers and Daughters
By Karen Rosenbaum Karen Rosenbaum lives in Kensington, California. This story, which was awarded Sunstone’s 2012 Starstone Prize, appears in her collection, Mothers, Daughters, Sisters, Wives (Zarahemla, 2016). Else Pedersen Mikelsen 12 January 1850–28 May 1920 The doctor told Anna there was nothing wrong with her mother, but all that meant was …
Aquascape #6
By Lon Young Lon Young’s work has appeared in Notre Dame Review, Cimarron Review, Dialogue, and other publications. And the Lord said, I will destroy man whom I have created from the face of the earth; both man and beast and the creeping thing and the fowls of the air; for it repenteth …
I See the Moon
By Kevin Rex Or, right-click to download the audio file here: I See the Moon My mom named and blessed all of our cars, christening Ruby, a 1968 Chevy, as our first van. Mom had the priesthood back then, even before those damn liberal Christian sects gave women the priesthood. Ruby’s …
2019 Sunstone Fiction Contest Winners
Congratulations to this year’s Sunstone Fiction Contest winners! The crop of stories this year was especially robust, with an eclectic mix of genres, subjects, and voices. Sunstone subscribers and Patreon patrons (patreon.com/sunstone) can look forward to reading and hearing these stories soon. 1st place: “Companion Claws,” by Larry Menlove. From our judges: “The characters felt …
You Can Give Him a Kiss
By Alison Maeser Brimley Or right-click to download the audio here: You Can Give Him a Kiss Alison Maeser Brimley is the winner of the 2017 and 2018 Association of Mormon Letters Short Fiction Awards and the 2017 Mountain West Writers Contest. She lives in Utah with her husband and daughter. This …
Adam and Lilith. And Eve.
By Ryan Shoemaker Ryan Shoemaker is the author of Beyond the Lights, a short story collection from No Record Press. His work has appeared in McSweeney’s Internet Tendency, Gulf Stream, Santa Monica Review, Booth, Juked, and Silk Road. Or download the audio file here: Adam and Lilith. And Eve God took …
2019 Sunstone Fiction Contest
The Sunstone Education Foundation invites writers to enter its annual fiction contest, made possible by a generous grant from an anonymous donor. All entries must relate to adult Latter-day Saint experience, theology, or worldview. All varieties of form are welcome. RULES 1. Up to three entries may be submitted by any one author. Send manuscript in …
Danites, Damsels, and World Domination: Mormons in the Dime Novels
By Michael Austin Michael Austin is co-editor of the Mormon Image in Literature series from Greg Kofford Books, which includes annotated reprints of 19th-century novels about Mormons including many of the works mentioned in this article such as The Doomed Dozen, The Bradys among the Mormons, and Eagle Plume: The White Avenger. Or …
Tower
By Ryan McIlvain Ryan McIlvain is the author of Elders (2013) and The Radicals (2018). A former Stegner Fellow in Fiction at Stanford, McIlvain has taught writing and literature at Rutgers, Stanford, and USC. Dad came home that afternoon from a last-minute grocery run, honking the horn from the driveway. I’d just …