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Saints, Spells, and Spaceships: Audience and Judge’s Choice Awards
A note from Jeanna Mason Stay: One thing I’ve enjoyed about hosting this contest has been seeing the different ways that readers have...
Nov 17, 2021
Meet the Authors and Guest Judge
A note from Jeanna Mason Stay: While I knew and recognized most of the authors who ended up as finalists this year, there were a few...
Nov 16, 2021
Saints, Spells, and Spaceships Voting Instructions
We’ve come to the end of the Saints, Spells, and Spaceships contest entries. We hope you’ve enjoyed this journey through LDS speculative...
Nov 8, 2021
“The Gift to Be Healed” by Annaliese Lemmon
With each step, icy shards of pain shoot through my knees and up my spine. My two-year-old Cecily runs ahead of me into the house, then...
Nov 6, 2021
“Hie to Kolob” by Emily Harris Adams
Annual Time Passage Unit 23.01956 Excerpt from President Aleki Tuigamala’s address: “At Parting, We Part.” My dear brothers and sisters,...
Nov 5, 2021
“The Other Commander” by W. O. Hemsath
In Florida’s SpaceCorp mission control room, waves of comforting heat rose from Brendan’s mug then disappeared in the air. He sat in the...
Nov 4, 2021
“The 37th Ward Relief Society Leftovers Exchange” by Liz Busby
The tradition began out of boredom and generosity. One sister had made a huge batch of meatballs and wanted to offer them to others. An...
Nov 3, 2021
“Gleaners” by James Goldberg
It is dark. Tomás is breathing slow, steady. Asleep. Isabel slips out of bed and down to the place on the banks of the Samalá where the...
Nov 2, 2021
“Aboard the Nursery Barge” by Sarah Chow
Before the meeting, Aunt Leah stopped by and pinched Gilhah’s cheeks. She said, “Treasure every minute! They grow up so fast.” Little...
Nov 1, 2021
“There Is No Release” by Jonathan Olfert
Taylor Cresswell hoped and prayed that the doorbell was his long-awaited pizza. Instead the doorstep held one (1) missionary in a baggy...
Oct 30, 2021
“Remote Control Mama” by Becca Birkin
You know who you are. You’re the one tucking Aunt Cecelia’s legacy into your purse. And you know what you should want. After all, you...
Oct 29, 2021
“Ministering Blood Brother” by Terrance V. McArthur
Good evening, Brother… Crossman. I’m Brother Harker, from the Second Ward, one of your ministering brothers. May I come in? I know this...
Oct 28, 2021
“The Apocalypse of Kemet III” by Hillary Stirling
Lin entered her anthropology professor’s office like she owned the place. Being highborn, she practically did. “In your lecture the other...
Oct 27, 2021
“The Gift of Undoing” by Katherine Cowley
For all have not every gift given unto them; for there are many gifts, and to every man is given a gift by the Spirit of God…. To some is...
Oct 26, 2021
“What Have You Against Being Baptized?” by W. O. Hemsath
Minnesota in the spring is its own kingdom of glory. As you and your companion cut through the park toward Richard’s house, a choir of...
Oct 25, 2021
Saints, Spells, and Spaceships Finalists
A message from our guest editor, Jeanna Mason Stay Hands have been wrung, dithering has been ongoing (and ongoing and ongoing), stories...
Oct 13, 2021


Saints, Spells, and Spaceships Semifinalists
An announcement from our guest editor, Jeanna Mason Stay Thank you so much to everyone who submitted their wonderful flash fiction to...
Oct 5, 2021
Saints, Spells, and Spaceships: A Flash Fiction Contest
Guest Editor Jeanna Mason Stay introduces this year’s fall contest: I am an unabashed lover of speculative fiction. For my entire reading...
Jun 13, 2021
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