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LOSING GOD by Peter Nolan Smith

April 2, 2024 – 12:52 am

A week before Christmas of 1967 I received my midterm report card from Our Lord’s Health High School. Having a stutter and stammer I had been expecting worst, however Bruder Karl had graciously passed me with a D+ in German. He loved that I read the poetry of Rilke. Brother Valentine had seen no merit […]

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Easter Finery 2019

March 31, 2024 – 8:35 am

My mother instilled in her children the desire to look good. “It’s one thing to be broke and quite another to look broke.” I got dressed up in her honor for Easter. A suit and tie. I’m sure that would make her happy in the Here-Before. Now all I have to do is shave off […]

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Bound to Burn at the Stake

August 24, 2023 – 9:01 pm

Written April 22, 2009 My Argentinean friend, Dampira, send a Facebook survey of what Biblical character she would be. The website search engine decided Deborah, a prophetess of the Old Testament. My apostasy forced a rude reaction. “Better you were Mary Magdalene. A fucking whore.” Dampira was taken aback at my vehemence and I explained […]

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Atheist Genesis – In the beginning there was nothing

January 2, 2023 – 11:17 pm
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Click My Heels

May 24, 2021 – 4:02 am

After her wondrous adventures over the rainbow in the Kingdom of Oz, Dorothy Gale clicked both heels of the ruby slippers to return to Kansas and she was quick to tell her family and friends, “There’s no place like home.” Kansas despite the tornados has always been considered the heartland of America and the prairie […]

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