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Declaring a winner in a literary contest is silly in many ways. As the ballots and comments make clear, different pieces resonated with...

We have enjoyed all twelve finalists. But we only have one Grand Prize. Help us decide which piece wins this year’s Lit Blitz by emailing...

You haven’t left yet, but when you do I’ll remind the children how you made sandwiches on warm wheat bread, stocked popsicles in your...

As soon as Brother Gardner opened the door, Shelley held out Sister Black’s old flip phone to him. “Do you have anything bigger or better...

Last night my daughter stormed into the kitchen spitting nails after her Young Women’s activity. “Do you know what we did?” “Is this a...

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...

Someone had made a spray paint stain on the second floor landing in the stairwell of Building B, and Maria couldn’t get it out. It was...

1. My husband is not a cockroach. If I had woken up next to Kafka’s “monstrous vermin,” I would have run and sprayed an entire can of...

This journal belongs to Hannah Bolt (Rinehart!) February 20th 2010: I know you’re supposed to start journals at the beginning of the...

I don’t remember the time of nameless animals. The lions have been lions too long for even Adam to think of them as anything else. My...

The call comes as Bishop Jonathan Parker prepares a funeral sermon for Gerald Thorkelsen, whose service is in two hours. He doesn’t...

I. Two Kitchen Floors and a Tea Party 1. Scrubbing the kitchen floor on my hands and knees: Dad walked in, looked down, said, You’ll...

Twenty-eight years ago, on his way to the temple on our wedding day, my husband-to-be had to saw his locking gas cap off with a hacksaw....

Angry Sunbeam does not want to wear a pretty bow in her hair. Angry Sunbeam does not care for raisins in her oatmeal. Or for oatmeal,...

This Monday kicks off the fourth annual Mormon Lit Blitz, featuring twelve finalists over a two-week period. The schedule follows:...

The Fourth Annual Mormon Lit Blitz will run May 18-30. We are pleased to announce this year’s finalists, listed by genre: Fiction:...