
Essays on fiction, belief, and the stories that shape how we live.
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I do not remember the first time someone said it to me. I remember the feeling of it.
Someday you will understand.
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The following is a speculative short story about domestic labor, optimization, and the strange ways ordinary tasks can bring us back to ourselves.
Photo by Zahraa Hassan on Unsplash
Without Friction
“Your Christmas present is in t...
I’ve spent most of my life in evangelical spaces. I can still recognize the cadence before a woman says anything of substance. The smile first. The little laugh. One hand smoothing the front of a blouse as she steps toward a microphone. I k...
By the end, there were so few volunteers that almost everyone still attending church had been drafted into two or three jobs.
I stood at the front holding the communion cup while people filed past in uneven lines. The sanctuary looked wron...
I was twenty-three when my oldest daughter was born, and like most first-time mothers, I was desperate to get things right.
She had colic and cried for hours. Some evenings it felt as though the whole house vibrated with her unhappiness. I...
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