It Burns | The Sun Magazine All that fall and into the winter, bulldozers and cranes cleared away the wooded top of Ransom Mountain, knocking down trees and shoveling dirt and rock into dump trucks, leaving behind a flat, barren expanse Come spring, we were told, the mountain’s top and back would be a landfill that three counties would pay to use, creating jobs in town for the first time since the mines had shut down
Banana Hymn | The Sun Magazine And he does Like criminals, you crane your guilty necks into empty classrooms, look through the windows of locked doors — Adult Basic Education, Remedial Reading, Plumbing, Construction — until you reach Horticulture and the toolroom cage, where, after he tries every key on the ring, the last one clicks open the lock And — Stop!
Claws | The Sun Magazine The Sun Magazine, Independent, Reader-Supported Publishing That’s justthe way thingsare the fellasaid A greencat throws hisfaceinto a wall They stilldon’tbelieve, thosecats Companion Animals Family and Relationships David Bond More From This Contributor
Selected Stories | The Sun Magazine Using a complex system of wires and pulleys, Arnold was able to operate an outfit the size and shape of a camel Arnold went to the Sahara Desert and put up a sign offering his services Two Bedouins came along and read the sign Soon Arnold was a Ship of the Desert, carrying them to Cairo For three years, Arnold worked as a camel
Between Two Worlds | The Sun Magazine For the past twenty years Somé has lived in the U S , teaching workshops and conducting divinations, rituals, and traditional Dagara ceremonies
night | The Sun Magazine The Sun Magazine, Independent, Reader-Supported Publishing eyes here lie dreaming trains lost in the night here, night is caught up and travels here is the night, you could almost take it in your hand you might blow it out on ribbons of light then pull it back through the stem of an idle flute you could at least drag it through fresh corn, think of the pleasure
All Families | The Sun Magazine We’ve been publishing Doug Crandell in The Sun for twenty years now I’ve been his editor that whole time, and I feel like I know him, even though we’ve met face-to-face only once He writes with such honesty and openness, often about growing up in rural Indiana I recently talked with Doug about how he navigated his family members’ responses to his essays about them We also discussed
Poems of Realization | The Sun Magazine In Claire McQuerry’s “I Always Wanted a Wife,” the speaker has a gradual epiphany about her true feelings about her marriage And in Rachael Petersen’s “Tassajara,” the lessons she learns at a Zen retreat come not from the monks or meditation sessions, but from a boisterous dog