Wednesday, February 8, 2012

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Divine Roots of Disbelief

RELIGION

Ronlyn Domingue encounters more questions than answers about the nature of her spirituality.

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Losing My Bus Control

ESSAY

When is a school bus not just a school bus? Alison Aucoin takes a journey that involves her parents’ divorce, an emotionally disturbed nun, school bus phobia, and the alphabetizing of spices. Finally, she realizes that parenthood is forcing her to face every bit of trauma from her childhood, no matter how odd, in order to be the parent her daughter deserves.

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How I Learned to Stop Worrying about Russians (Iraqis, North Koreans, and so on) and Hate War

MEMOIR

Do you…did you…fear the world was going to end in a great bloom of mushroom clouds? You aren’t and weren’t alone. Ronlyn Domingue walks straight into the darkness with Donald Fagen, Ronald Reagan, and J. Robert Oppenheimer and searches for peace on the other side.

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The Runaways

MEMOIR

Two runaways from the 1970′s, one from her home, the other from his sexuality, meet up again 25 years later.

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My Name Was Marrow

MEMOIR

How can anyone escape their homosexuality with a surname that’s pronounced “Gay-dicks”?

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Feast of One Soul

MEMOIR

BOULDER, CO- The priest who guided me through catechism, old wotshisname with kebab skewer eyes, liked to remind me that since I was born immediately after all the saints had scoured the earth of Satan’s minions, I had a special duty to be a vessel of purity for the sake of All Souls my every [...]

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