This page contains links to some of the things I haven't been able to publish yet.
"Butterflies" A parable of divorce
I wrote this parable shortly after my divorce in 1989. I keep trying to find a way to give it a happy ending, but all the happy endings I've thought of seem to be part of a different story. I guess I have to leave this one the way it is.
"And the Home of the Brave"
I originally intended this WW-III story to be a prologue to a novel I'm working on. Then I read Orson Scott Card's advice to never use prologues, and I decided to try to make the story stand on its own.
"Point"
I wrote this in 1982 or 1983, while I was sanding cherry doors for a house my father and I were building. The whole thing formed itself in my mind as I worked, and that night I went home and wrote it down in one sitting. At that time, I had been teaching Isaiah in my Gospel Doctrine class, and I was trying to understand how it was that Isaiah could see past, present, and future simultaneously. I had not read Abbott's Flatland when I wrote this, but I had been enjoying some late-night conversations with a friend who had (but he never mentioned the book in my presence). I think some of the ideas from Flatland must have been filtered to me through those conversations. After 20 years I still like this piece.
"The Time Machine"
I wrote this very short story about Bu Yone, Geto Nef, and Ree as something of a joke. I have always wondered how time travel stories manage to transport people through time, but keep them "hooked" to a fixed spot on a rapidly moving planet.
"Redeemed" A One-Act Nephite Christmas Play
I wrote this play for a ward Christmas program. It contains only two characters, and takes only about 15 minutes to perform. It contains a couple of lines from Lex de Azevedo's Gloria, the most glorious musical work I have ever had the privilege of singing (used with permission of the composer). These lines should be sung without accompaniment.
"Was Lehi a Jew?"
This is one of several articles I have written that have been rejected by the Ensign. I wrote it in 2003 and hoped to have it published in the Ensign before we started studying the Book of Mormon in 2004. It's still a fairly interesting article, even if they didn't take it.
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