[…] in discussing a novel as thoughtful as American Fork. Politics, religion, belonging, family history, ecology, sense of place, the high costs of love and our dogged willingness to pay that price over and over again—these […]
Ephemerist, n.: (1) after the Greek word for day, a journal keeper; (2) a collector of ephemera (see archivist); (3) an inventor of ephemera (see capitalist); (4) a devotee of ephemera (see nudist); (5) […]
[…] collection of prose and poetry featuring a specific demographic of Mormon women who read and contribute to the literary journal and blog Segullah. Eleven thoughtfully arranged categories containing fifty-eight voices capture a diversity of […]
The mid-November darkness settles early in the afternoon. As my window dims, a tall man with a chocolate complexion peeks through the door. “Charity,” his rich baritone voice fills my small room, “I’m […]
Amber, formerly pine sap where ant wings settled, feathers, the occasional tiny frog. A drop of the Jurassic Age I wear around my neck. A Chop Wizard with its plastic cup, blades, hand crank […]
There are no streetlights where my cottage hides within a forest. Nights there grant a cold permission to the stars who drag along their lazy arc. Away from manmade glare,
My son hunches into the storm in his oversized coat to collect fast offerings, a two-hour route because the other mother’s sons stay in when it’s cold. He is mine. His wrists
We all know the Sunday School answers, but life rarely, if ever, plays out like a seminary video. So what do love, sex, and marriage look like in the lived experience of Mormon women? […]
As a child first, the ramp was forever. Walking, counting stars, planetgazing, still walking; music playing, missionaries talking. Your feet, eye-level, substantial and white, perfect
[…] of her children were taken: one whispered out of life by a flapping heart, one stoned in the head by a tumor, one catapulted through a windshield into the hereafter. Unable to pierce God, […]