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The Great Ganesh Milk Miracle

By Kavitha Yaga Buggana | March 7, 2021

The news of the Great Ganesh Milk Miracle was dissected in every newspaper and every household. No one could talk of anything else.

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Uncle Oatmeal

By Gordon Haber | September 11, 2017

The niece is the only child he knows.

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Two Misses

By Greg Bottoms | November 12, 2015

That’s the thing they don’t tell you—PTSD is contagious.

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The Minister’s Handyman

By Greg Bottoms | August 12, 2014

An excerpt from Pitiful Criminals, published this week by Counterpoint Press. Drawings by W. David Powell.

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The Niagara River

By Scott Cheshire | July 8, 2014

An excerpt from the novel High As The Horses’ Bridles, published this week by Henry Holt.

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Dear Nancy

By Darcey Steinke | August 8, 2013

People get cancer; mothers lose sons in war; babies die; but here she is, heartbroken because I sexted you, Nancy, a middle-aged hippie lady who writes bad slam poetry.

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Is Any Thing Too Hard for the Lord?

By David Harris Ebenbach | September 30, 2011

Love is a straight path—with traffic.

El Greco, "Agony in the Garden of Gethsemane."

There Is No Rock in You

By Lisa Levy | April 21, 2011

The dreams of sleeping disciples at Gethsemane.

God's eyes.

God’s Eye Gives Back

By Mary Valle | November 25, 2010

Everybody’s favorite yarn craft puts its mystical powers under the microscope.

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By Lydia Conklin | July 12, 2010

Once again, a woman is tempted by a snake.

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The Ice King

By Quince Mountain | January 25, 2010

An unexpected catch on Fish-O-Rama weekend.

Sarkozy by Môsieur J. [version 3.0a] via Flickr

Islamization

By Ali Eteraz | December 14, 2009

Nicholas Sarkozy takes her burqa-ed consort for a walk in Paris.

"the Clinquant of Hope" by Derrick T via Flickr

Juan Lucas

By Susan Parker | December 3, 2009

Can a man be better than his rap sheet?

By qleoca [be kind] via Flickr

Two Ghost Stories

By Greg Bottoms | October 30, 2009

Conversations with the dead, memories of life.

The author on the subway.

Postcards from My Chastity Pledge

By Rebecca Katherine Hirsch | September 19, 2009

Hell is other people’s multi-faith neighborhoods.

By egor.gribanov via Flickr

A Meaningful Story

By David Plante | September 12, 2009

From Essential Stories: God, Love, Death, Joy, Suffering, Beauty.

Inmaculada Concepción by Juan Antonio de Frías y Escalante (Wikimedia Commons).

A Movement in the Soul

By David Plante | September 5, 2009

From Essential Stories: The inconceivable immaculately conceived.

"rave & ravers" by cinocino via Flickr

Sons and Daughters of Hungry Ghosts

By Andrew Thurman | August 31, 2009

The voice of the spirit world descends into an underworld.