PROOF SEASONS of CHANGE UNCORRECTED Titles from PECULIAR PAGES PROOF The Fob Bible Out of the Mount Fire in the Pasture Monsters & Mormons Dorian: A Peculiar Edition Seasons of Change Dove Song UNCORRECTED SEASONS OF PROOF CHANGE Stories of transition from the writers of Segullah edited by Sandra Clark Jergensen & UNCORRECTEDShelah Mastny Miner SEASONS OF CHANGE: Stories of Transition from the Writers of Segullah edited by Sandra Clark Jergensen & Shelah Mastny Miner Anthology copyright 2017 Peculiar Pages Contributions copyright 2017 Individual contributors ISBN: 978-0-9911892-8-1 (paperback) ISBN: 978-0-9861271-7-5 (ebook, all formats) Editors: Sandra Clark Jergensen & Shelah Mastny Miner Cover art: Leslie Graff Book design and digitization: Elizabeth Beeton Published By: PECULIAR PAGES 115 Ramona Avenue El Cerrito, CA 94530 PROOF PeculiarPages.com in collaboration with B10 Mediaworx PO Box 1233 Liberty, MO 64069-1233 b10mediaworx.com All rights reserved. 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UNCORRECTED Contents FOREWORD .......................................................................................................................... 1 INTRODUCTION ............................................................................................................... 3 MEASUREMENT ................................................................................................................. 5 Three Dollar Attribute — Teresa Hirst ............................................................................................... 7 Coming Up for Air — Melody Newey ................................................................................................ 9 Beautiful Ashes — Kylie Turley .........................................................................................................PROOF 10 Measuring My Days: Coffee Spoons and Conjunctions — Lisa Rumsey Harris ....................... 17 Guarding Your Growing Season — Julie Nelson ............................................................................ 21 WELCOME ......................................................................................................................... 23 To Go Home — Catherine Keddington Arveseth ............................................................................ 25 Room and Board — Melonie Cannon ............................................................................................... 30 Emerald Grass and May Skies — Tracy McKay-Lamb .................................................................. 32 Gathering Sheaves — Jes S. Curtis ................................................................................................... 36 When God Baked Pot Pie — Terresa Wellborn .............................................................................. 38 CYCLE .................................................................................................................................. 39 Ebbing Tide — Melissa McQuarrie .................................................................................................. 41 Ice Cream With Superman and Kafka — Jennifer Quist ............................................................... 51 In Transit — Gladys C. Farmer ......................................................................................................... 56 Horizon — Darlene Young ................................................................................................................ 61 How Long? (Chronic Illness) — Darlene Young ............................................................................. 62 HUNGER ............................................................................................................................. 63 Brownies and Bottled Peaches — Jessie Christensen ...................................................................... 65 Photocopy Warmth and Fortune Cookie Memories — Teresa Bruce .......................................... 70 UNCORRECTEDThe Marriage Bed — Shelah Mastny Miner .................................................................................... 73 Their Name is Violet — Sandra Clark Jergensen ............................................................................ 79 Book of Genesis Rejects — Claire Åkebrand ................................................................................... 85 The Black Cat Crossing — Claire Åkebrand ................................................................................... 87 ii Seasons of Change ACCEPTANCE .................................................................................................................. 89 Blue Polish — Kellie Purcill .............................................................................................................. 91 My Inner Voice — Michelle Lehnardt ............................................................................................. 94 Open — Sandra Clark Jergensen ...................................................................................................... 96 The Woman That — Melonie Cannon ............................................................................................ 99 The Baby is Crying — Elizabeth Cranford Garcia ....................................................................... 102 REVERSAL ........................................................................................................................ 103 Back to Work — Heather Bennett Oman ....................................................................................... 105 One Night in Bermuda — Julia Blue Lamar ................................................................................. 109 Ben Comes Home — Michelle Lehnardt ....................................................................................... 111 We’d Rather Be Ruined — Melissa Dalton-Bradford ................................................................... 114 Last Night I Prayed — Melody Newey ...........................................................................................PROOF 118 ENTROPY ......................................................................................................................... 119 Unclean — Emily Bishop Milner .................................................................................................... 121 Reviving a Doused Testimony — Emily Clyde Curtis ................................................................. 125 Ears to Hear — Kylie Nielson Turley ............................................................................................. 129 A Place to Wait — Becca Odgen ..................................................................................................... 133 11pm — Elizabeth Cranford Garcia ............................................................................................... 143 EXCHANGE ..................................................................................................................... 145 Kate, River Guide — Katie Nelson Stirling ................................................................................... 147 Lessons from the Valley of the Shadow — Linda Hoffman Kimball .......................................... 151 I Tell My Children — Melody Newey ........................................................................................... 156 Stepping Out On the Word — Heather R. Kimball ..................................................................... 157 Tennis Haiku — Melissa Young ..................................................................................................... 160 GRAPPLING ..................................................................................................................... 163 How to Kill a Cocktail Party — Tressa Brown Edmunds ............................................................. 165 Truths Revealed from a Naked Adonis — Leslie Whyte Graff ................................................... 170 Uncalled For — Anna Sam Lenhart ............................................................................................... 174 Field Walking — Angela Hallstrom ............................................................................................... 177 UNCORRECTEDYá’át’ééh — for my father — Terresa Wellborn ............................................................................. 194 Contents iii GRAFTING ....................................................................................................................... 195 Because of Bob — Sherilyn Olsen ................................................................................................... 197 Twice Removed — Courtney Miller Santo .................................................................................... 204 Jesus is Here — Lisa Garfield .......................................................................................................... 208 Becoming Grandma — Dalene Rowley .......................................................................................... 211 An Unfamiliar Grief — Heather Oman ......................................................................................... 217 To My Children, Who Will Be Asked What They Are — Elizabeth Cranford