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The Town Minister Reacts to My Prophesy

I am surprised your pale lips lack frothat their edges, that you come to me clean, you claim that Jesus and Elohimseparate appeared in temporal cloth before you. You lie. We know from scripturefather and…

Tiny Papers: Peruvian Mormon Substances of Relatedness

Listen to a conversation about this piece here. JACOBA:[1] I have my genealogical abilities, and I wield them as I see fit. JASON: And you saw fit to marry your son to Chalo’s daughter? JACOBA:…

Justice, Solidarity, and the Spirit of Elijah

During Moroni’s 1823 visit to Joseph Smith, he repeats the prophecy written in the fourth chapter of Malachi, although with a slight change in wording.[1] Later Joseph interpreted Malachi’s prophecy as referring to a “welding…

By the Numbers

Listen to the Out Loud version of the piece here. Masked and gowned, Isa stood in the corner of the operating room next to his son Cael. Three surgeons stood around the operating table and…

Transition

Soon the deer will leave the mountains.Search our garden for vegetation.Bite the tops off tea roses, their teeth leaving scars.In the yard the ash tree dropsleaves into the browning grass. My husband rakes around each…

Emma Stands at Her Doorway: Nauvoo, 1846

Rinse out the rag while you stand at the door; there is no more ripe fruit at this point in the season. Those wagons that rise on the opposite bank are filled with what they…

Moroni 12

My father has appeared—not in a dream—and shown me where to haul the plates off to,a harder task now that I had the recordsof Mormon whole and Ether shortened upand needed a bigger box to…