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...
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Liz Busby
Nov 16, 20215 min read
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...
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Liz Busby
Nov 8, 20212 min read
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...
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Liz Busby
Nov 5, 20214 min read
“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...
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Liz Busby
Nov 4, 20216 min read
“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,...
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Liz Busby
Nov 3, 20215 min read
“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...
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Liz Busby
Nov 2, 20213 min read
“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...
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Liz Busby
Nov 1, 20214 min read
“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...
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Liz Busby
Nov 1, 20215 min read
“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...
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Liz Busby
Oct 29, 20216 min read
“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...
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Liz Busby
Oct 28, 20216 min read
“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...
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Liz Busby
Oct 27, 20212 min read
“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...
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Liz Busby
Oct 26, 20216 min read
“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...
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Liz Busby
Oct 25, 20216 min read
“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...
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Liz Busby
Oct 24, 20216 min read
“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...
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Liz Busby
Oct 13, 20212 min read
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...
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Liz Busby
Oct 5, 20212 min read
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...
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Liz Busby
Jun 13, 20213 min read
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...
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