We’re starting back up with feature Fridays at AMV. Starting late, but starting nonetheless, and we’re kicking off with the return of Short Story Friday. Today (actually tonight), it’s a story by Todd Robert Petersen. Why? Because his Marilyn Brown Unpublished Novel Award-winning Rift* has just been published by Zarahemla Books. For more on Rift, [...]
It’s summer. I’m feeling lazy. There’s been a drop in weekend comments. Therefore, Short Story Friday is going on hiatus until after labor day. BUT… when it comes back, it will have some new friends. It’s been a blast focusing on stories, but it’s time for our weekends to include a broader palette — the [...]
I’m not doing this on this day to be cute or sentimental — this story demands more than that. And deserves it.
Title: Pioneers
Author: Michael Fillerup
Publication Info: Dialogue, Winter 2007
Submitted by: Andrew Hall
Why?: Andrew says: “I like all of Fillerup’s stories. Nicely descriptive, strong content. His two novels have not worked as well for me.”
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Because it’s summer, and we are all feeling a little lazy and languid. And because there’s already been a bunch of talk about short stories this week (apologies to non-Irreantum subscribers who don’t get to get in on the action — of course, there is a remedy for that). And because there’s simply a lot [...]
For today a departure from our normal reading — a piece of criticism rather than a short story. Read it and then go back and read one or two or three of the Short Story Friday stories you haven’t read yet.
Title: Danger on the Right! Danger on the Left! The Ethics of Recent Mormon Fiction
Author: [...]
Harlow explains it so much better than I can (see below).
Title: And
Author: N. E. Houston
Publication Info: Summer 1990 — Dialogue, Volume 23, Number 2
Submitted by: Harlow Clark
Why?: Harlow writes:
“The author gave this story an unindexable title because he has all these story collections with titles like Nothing Very Important and Other Stories, and The [...]
Since Tyler has posted his excellent two-part review of The Fob Family Bible, it seems appropriate to feature a story from it this week. Enjoy! Or don’t. Either way, speak up in the comments so Theric isn’t forced to talk to himself about his own project.
Title: Abraham’s Purgatory
Author: B. G. Christensen
Publication Info: June 2009, [...]
Some AMV readers may have already read this series of short short stories by Eric Nielson since he posted them at the Blogger of Jared just last year. But for those who missed it the first go round, give it a shot. I make no great literary claims for these stories — and I don’t [...]
