"Natural Coloring" by Marianne Hales Harding
When you dress conservatively and your hair is blue, people look at you. Timid (but cool) people tell you they envy you. Children on the...
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Cecelia Proffit
May 20, 20134 min read
"Kayden Abernathy's Journal Page 35-37, Partially Recovered from the House Fire 6/21/2013" by Steven Peck
refuses to come over. I know what I know. The woman is a witch. She even looks like one. Seriously. She's got wild tangley hair and a...
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cowleyke
May 19, 20131 min read
"Sister" by Merrijane Rice
You swallow sorrow like knives slicing down to your heart. I want to gather you, press the pieces together, stanch the bleeding— but I...
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Cecelia Proffit
May 17, 20134 min read
"Dumb Idols" by Hillary Stirling
Frankincense and tobacco – a sweet scent and a bitter fume – the mingled offerings of earthen gods. Baal. Dagon. Isis. Athena. They all...
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Cecelia Proffit
May 16, 20131 min read
"The Accidental Jaywalker" by Ben Crowder
I accidentally jaywalked today I didn’t mean to I was thinking about tithing Okay, I wasn’t thinking about tithing There was a girl A...
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Cecelia Proffit
May 16, 20131 min read
"Celestial Terms" by Sarah Dunster
You love me in algebra— D + d = L to the Nth degree, and I love you in quarter notes— a fierce appoggiatura and a soft, high C. We loved...
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Cecelia Proffit
May 14, 20134 min read
"Regimen" by Scott Hales
Two weeks before the pool party, Wyler began a strength training regimen. For fifteen minutes every other day, he did twenty-five stomach...
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Cecelia Proffit
May 14, 20132 min read
"Actionable Intelligence" by Jonathon Penny
You revolve around the sun, and not the other way around. Stoves are often hot. Knives are often sharp. Animals have teeth and claws,...
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Liz Busby
Mar 16, 20121 min read
Lit Blitz Winner
Thanks first to our thirteen wonderful finalists–and for you readers, who contributed to the more than 10,000 views of their pieces....
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Liz Busby
Feb 29, 20121 min read
Lit Blitz Voting Instructions
We have loved sharing the work of all thirteen finalists. But we only have one Grand Prize. The winner of the Mormon Lit Blitz will be...
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