Todd Robert Petersen
Todd Robert Petersen, a fiction writer and satirist for The Sugar Beet
Articles
The Investigator
We shall be driven to great extremities. I know not what to think of it. Daniel Defoe, Journal of a Plague Year By the end of the fifth wave, people didn’t want to hear about…
Read moreWhen the Brightness Seems Most Distant
“It might not be a problem,” she said to her husband before rolling onto her stomach with a pillow clutched in her arms. She was tired from crying and wished sleep would overcome her. Though…
Read moreOne Method of Hope
The only motion here is an old
Dodge pickup leading a coil
of white exhaust across
the horizon—a snow-dusted
The Charity of Silence
This is the story of my father’s demise. It wanders when I tell it, and I never know when to bring in the polygamy, so I just do and let matters take care of themselves.…
Read moreGood News for Fiction Readers | Jack Harrell, Vernal Promises, and Douglas Thayer, The Conversion of Jeff Williams
In 2003, Signature Books hit 100 percent from the free-throw line when both of the novels it published that year won manuscript awards from the Association for Mormon Letters. Jack Harrell’s Vernal Promises and Douglas…
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