[…] another and another in an accelerating whirl drawing him surely, swiftly, steeply down into the singular, piercing, world-devouring whine of his genitals. Afterward he washes carefully in the bathroom. There is no hurry. This […]
Dialogue 17.3 (Fall 1984): 11–16 Delegates of the 1970 conference moved to adopt a resolution which stated that women constituted a majority of the church membership but had limited opportunity to act as representatives.
[…] had been won under Bishop Williams’s direction. Next to the trophies was a colored map of the world with pins stuck where missionaries were. None were in France, his old mission. He tried to […]
[…] know really if they were or not. After we got here, he forbade us to learn any English, to go out of the house or to let anyone in. Even the others from Mexico […]
[…] When I was about seven years old, we moved to Roosevelt, only eight miles but a whole world away. I enjoyed being in the Cub Scouts and Boy Scouts, but I don’t recall any […]
[…] reign of Queen Elizabeth the legend gained wide acceptance, because it justified British claims to the new world. Early explorers claimed that some natives spoke a language that sounded like Welsh—evidence that they were […]
[…] one of the best of Mormon memoirs. The first twenty-one chapters of Quicksand and Cactus, “Wide Wonderful World,” cover Brooks’s childhood to age thirteen. They are not expository, nor do they advance by the […]
[…] of her, telling Maggie Smith/Margaret Masters/Rosie stories, remember ing the many names with which she faced the world and the singular love that was her face to us. I told about the first time […]
[…] could relieve the poor and hungry of the South, let alone the whole country or the Third World. I began to see that giving one of my consecrated mission dollars to every unfortunate person […]
Dialogue 23.2 (Summer 1990): 85–97 Chronicling the history of baptizing for the dead during the Nauvoo Period, this article introduces the practice from the first baptizers to how it was altered after Joseph Smith’s death.