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He looks up and says me and my brother are getting a haircut on the front porch after dessert. Three days before summer, and he’s going to cut our hair.
By Tim MelleyAugust 1994This year the millet fields had been generous and the harvest good. The hard work of collecting and transporting grain from the farm to the house roofs, where it waited to be put into the granaries, was over. Now, in the fallow dry season, the villagers turned their attention to spiritual matters — to initiation.
By Malidoma Patrice SoméAugust 1994A fortune cookie, Mother Teresa, dreams of grandeur
By Our ReadersMarch 1994A niece’s realization, a mother’s uncontrollable urge, a father’s double life
By Our ReadersJanuary 1994She squints into the afternoon sun to avoid the cop’s eyes as he leans against the open screen door. “All right, Maria,” he says, squaring his shoulders and digging into his pockets like all the cops she’s seen on TV.
By Brenda DeMartiniDecember 1993Bobby and I were tired. His family was visiting for a week, and we’d been up late every night since they arrived. I realize now Bobby’s parents hated him. I don’t know why.
By Mary SepulvedaJuly 1993They called their refugee years The Time When We Were Not, and they were forgiven, because they had carried the truth of themselves in a sheltered place inside the flesh, exactly the way a fruit that has gone soft still carries inside itself the clean, hard stone of its future.
By Barbara KingsolverJune 1993I stood up and reeled. Blood washed from my brain. My vision began to shrink, and the people in the room seemed separated from me by some fold in the air.
By Karen BjornebyFebruary 1993Personal, political, provocative writing delivered to your doorstep every month—without a single ad.
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