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The Dogcatcher Hates Politics by Matt Roberts

The dogcatcher doesn’t like politics. The dogcatcher left his job at the zoo because there was too much politics. The dogcatcher likes this job because there’s no politics. Just him and the van. And the dogs. The bats. The people. And the occasional ride-along....more

Visit with a Forgotten People by K. M. Huber

Thirteen-year-old Jessica leaned against the wall, trying not to be sick as her grandfather Charles held up the sacred relic for the rest of us to see. Being allowed to view such ancestral treasures may have been offered to us as an honor, but it was one that her stomach had not been prepared for....

Body and Soul by Maria Lauenstein

In the evenings after someone died a boy would go outside and blow a conch, and people, mostly women, would gather in the shrine room to chant Om Mani Padme Hung Hri. Om Mani Padme Hung Hri was the prayer of sympathy and love, but there was a particular tuning used at funerals that was so slow and mournful that it made me cry....