Jesus is Coming, Look Busy
Checklist Change water to wine Feed a crowd with a pittance ✓ Tell a few parables ✓ Wash someone’s feet ✓ Chase out the money lenders Drive demons into pigs Reanimate a corpse Diss a hypocrite – include yourself ✓…
Outer Limits
Those of us who love stories about extraterrestrial life will blithely parrot ET phone home, or Thanks for all the fish, or Live long and prosper. Yet we fear them and disbelieve them when they say, We come in peace.…
Café – Motel
The kids complained that they wanted a hotel with a pool and a McDonalds. “Is there at least a go-cart track nearby?” They whined. “We can get fast food anywhere!” I tell them. “And a Marriott wouldn’t have a go-cart…
Mind Control Juice
(A found essay) She writes: I pray you are watching for the TRUTH. Tonight a plane flew over our farm and drew an infinity sign! She worries: There is evidence the coro-na virus disease is connected to radiofrequency radiation. TRUTH…
“A Mennonite Woman in ‘Thanksgiving Town’: The Employment of Edith Swartzendruber, 1935-1941”
Labor’s Heritage, v.3, #1, Winter 1991
