By Bob Mesle The figure of the Crucified invalidates all thought which takes success for its standard. Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Ethics These are the parts of the work which it was possible to conceal in a place of safety before they could be seized by the police. They have been retrieved from their garden hiding-places …
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The Prophet Claude: Fiction
By Jack Harrell Claude Winn was in the garage changing the oil on his motorcycle when he heard the message on the radio. Claude was a big man with a gray and black beard and a sun-browned baldpate on the top of his head. The hair he had left was long and tucked behind his …
Borderlands: A Play–Part II
Continued from Part I SCENE SEVEN (BRIAN and PHYLLIS sit in the office, waiting.) PHYLLIS: I don’t know why we’re doing this. We don’t need you. BRIAN: Whatever. PHYLLIS: I run this car lot. I decide who works here and who doesn’t. BRIAN: I was told to wait here for Dave. Is that …
Borderlands: A Play–Part 1
Introduction Borderlands marks a place of intersection, a liminal space where roads end but new paths begin, where no horizons reveal themselves but also where collisions do us harm. I’m a believing, practicing Mormon, and Mormonism is at its most essential a religion that preaches literally endless human possibilities, eternal progression, and growth. But we …
The Pros and Cons of Writing Confessional Memoir in the Mormon Milieu
By Phyllis Barber Or, right-click here to download the audio file: The Pros and Cons of Writing Confessional Memoir in the Mormon Milieu (This paper was delivered at the International Conference of the American Literary West, Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain, October 2010) Because the focus of this occasion is the American Literary West and …