crucifiction

made up stuff

"'Do you know anything about abduction?' he asked..."

The Soul Molecule

By Steve Almond | March 14, 2005

They are among us, and they are watching what they eat.

Peter Bruegel, "Fall of the Rebel Angels"

The Descent of Man

By Bia Lowe | December 21, 2004

The true story of the extinction of the angels.

"Adam and Eve Temptation 1," Oleg Maslov & Viktor Kouznetsov

Genesis, At Rest

By Steve Almond | June 25, 2004

When Adam and Eve fall, they fall hard.

Edith Wharton, b. 1862 - "'Edith? Is that you?' 'Yes,' the pen wrote, wobbling a little on its inky point."

Inflections

By Livia Kent | June 6, 2004

What do you call yourself when names like skin can be shed?

"When they turn toward the ocean, I'm standing there, shoving another monk into the waves."

Pushing Monks

By Jeremy Richards | May 3, 2004

Lost at sea on a flotilla of enlightenment.

BUY IT!

Mortal, Eat This Scroll!

By Peter Manseau and Jeff Sharlet | March 26, 2004

Read the story that started it all. An excerpt from Killing the Buddha: A Heretic’s Bible.

"What is it to be in the jaws of a lion, how must it feel to be eaten?"

Xmas in the Lions’ Den

By Eileen Myles | December 19, 2003

Or, “What’s Up, Daniel”; a tale of bibical danger retold for this most dangerous of seasons.

"It's Easter-time. They sell these at the drugstore."

Easter at the Jewish Ritual Bath, 1962

By Ilana Stanger-Ross | April 16, 2003

A tale of love, loss and submersion.

Domovoi

The Domovoi

By Irina Reyn | October 30, 2002

Can an ancient Russian ghost shed some light on a modern marriage in trouble?

Mesquite

Entrance Wound

By Charles Bowden | August 1, 2002

We believe in cells and protoplasm and sex, and stench and dirt and slime
and screams in the night.

kimmel

Amos Awake

By Haven Kimmel | July 3, 2002

Reading the book he’ll never write.

Hands

Anointing the Sick

By Al Masarik | June 24, 2002

An altar boy grows up just in time to watch his mother die.

"Pigeons don't talk."

Another Room

By Eileen Myles | January 12, 2002

Remember when God was just another cashier behind the cage?

Kinkakuji Temple, Kyoto

Princessing Lessons

By Tom Bradley | February 16, 2001

No need for jumbo-jets full of pre-pubescent sex slaves, Japan’s Great Goddess has arrived.

Torquemada

Torquemada

By Melvin Jules Bukiet | December 18, 2000

What if every prince or pope who ever stoned or burned the Chosen People had a party in your head?

Arches

Bent

By Peter Manseau | November 13, 2000

“Lecturing to a conference of American monastics, Dr. Luc Clement raises a femur above his head and waves it like a flashlight on a runway.”