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The path and the gate : Mormon short fiction / edited by Andrew Hall & Robert Raleigh.

First edition.

Salt Lake City : Signature Books, 2023.

©2023

ix, 295 pages ; 23 cm

The Book of Mormon prophet Nephi describes the journey to eternal life as going through a gate of ordinances and traveling a “straight and narrow path.” Twenty-three authors took that gospel roadmap passage as a prompt to write “a Mormon story.” They responded with a surprisingly wide range of realistic and fantastic tales. Amazon.com

American fiction -- Latter Day Saint authors.

Short stories, American.

American fiction -- 21st century.

Short stories.

Hall, Andrew R., editor.

Raleigh, Robert, 1964- editor.

Editors' introduction -- The investigator / Todd Robert Petersen -- Holy Ghost power / Eric Freeze -- Planting Iris / Annette Haws -- Missionary weekly report for 28 March-3 April, Mumbai First Branch, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints / Mattathias Singh -- Alwasy to be found / William Morris -- Natural causes / Joe Plicka -- It's a good life / Alison Brimley -- A vision / Tim Wirkus -- Unhanded / Jennifer Quist -- Mrs. Seppe / Heidi Naylor -- The curse / Theric Jepson -- Narrow is the gate / Danny Nelson -- After midnight / Phyllis Barber -- 1A: Literary pals; or how not to double down / Ryan McIlvain -- The mathematics of God / Jack Harrell -- Lana Turner has collapsed! / David G. Pace -- A courtship / Charity Shumway -- Barry Dudson: The God journals / Ryan Shoemaker -- Ghosts / Michael Fillerup -- Calf Creek Falls / Larry Menlove -- The funeral / Holly Welker -- We're going to need a second baptism / Ryan Habermeyer -- Sister Carvalho's excellent Relief Society lesson / Steven L. Peck.

Editors' introduction -- The investigator / Todd Robert Petersen -- Holy Ghost power / Eric Freeze -- Planting Iris / Annette Haws -- Missionary weekly report for 28 March-3 April, Mumbai First Branch, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints / Mattathias Singh -- Alwasy to be found / William Morris -- Natural causes / Joe Plicka -- It's a good life / Alison Brimley -- A vision / Tim Wirkus -- Unhanded / Jennifer Quist -- Mrs. Seppe / Heidi Naylor -- The curse / Theric Jepson -- Narrow is the gate / Danny Nelson -- After midnight / Phyllis Barber -- 1A: Literary pals; or how not to double down / Ryan McIlvain -- The mathematics of God / Jack Harrell -- Lana Turner has collapsed! / David G. Pace -- A courtship / Charity Shumway -- Barry Dudson: The God journals / Ryan Shoemaker -- Ghosts / Michael Fillerup -- Calf Creek Falls / Larry Menlove -- The funeral / Holly Welker -- We're going to need a second baptism / Ryan Habermeyer -- Sister Carvalho's excellent Relief Society lesson / Steven L. Peck.

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