Henry Landon Miles
HENRY LANDON MILES grew up in Blackfoot, Idaho and received his BA from Idaho State in 1961 and an MA in economics from American University in 1968. He became a Foreign Service Officer and served in US embassies in Latin America. He retired into Brigham Young University’s MA program in creative nonfiction writing and learned what he wanted to be when he grew up. His essay “My Mission Decision” won Dialogue’s Eugene England Memorial Personal Essay Contest in 2007.
Becky, Not God
Articles/Essays – Volume 53, No. 3
set the hour for their reunion.She’s under the greencanopy in the closed coffin. She signed away her body,except for her skin,so her hip bones might be recycled into screws to repair broken anklesor wedges to…
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Articles/Essays – Volume 38, No. 3
I sense someone beside me
and see Emily’s eyes on my hands
and the knife in the sink.
She asks, What are you slicing?
Carol Took the Call
Articles/Essays – Volume 38, No. 4
Al had tethered me to the class of 53,
webbed me to classmates before the web,
invited me back every ten years.
The Man Lying in the Grass
Articles/Essays – Volume 38, No. 4
We’re in Ogden, Utah, on the second day of May, heading home to Orem after a Sunday afternoon with grandchildren. Carol is driving south on Washington Boulevard passing low business buildings whose shadows are covering the lawns and reaching out into the street. Up ahead, I spot a man lying in the grass maybe twenty feet back from the curb. A drunk sleeping himself sober? I wonder. Probably drunk . . . But what if he’s a diabetic whose sugar is low and he can’t get up?
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Articles/Essays – Volume 40, No. 1
October 1954. I am age nineteen and in Clark’s Barbershop with Lloyd for his weekly duck’s butt haircut. He’s reading the Salt Lake Tribune and 1 am turning magazine pages. A coupon says, “Play a guitar in six weeks.” I nudge Lloyd, “My convertible needs a guitar player.”
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