I'm pleased to announce that my latest story, “Pearls before Swine,” has just appeared in Dali’s LoveChild . If you care to read it, the link is here . This story concerns the metaphorical fate of a Bible believer. It takes place in a Bible store in the Arizona desert. I have to give my friend Steve credit for the main idea, although the setting was inspired by a trip I once made to Tempe. Steve was raised in a very religious household. The Bible was a big deal to him growing up. In the bookstores in his hometown and at his college, accessories for Bibles were big business. The book itself was so sacred that you couldn’t put it on the floor or lay other books on top of it. I wondered what it must’ve been like to have been raised in such an environment. Would you eventually reject what you’d been taught? Would you simply accept it all your life and push on with a meek living in an unsatisfying job? The two brothers in...
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