Planting patience
Editor’s note: Each Thursday, we feature a throwback piece from Topology’s predecessor, catapult magazine. In this essay from 2012, Amelia Rhodes plants seeds with her…
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Dishes on the red sled
Editor’s note: Each Thursday, we feature a throwback piece from Topology’s predecessor, catapult magazine. In this essay from 2011, L. L. Barkat considers writing, schooling, and…
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What word to bring for Easter?
On my way to church Sunday, I heard an NPR story about a ministry to homeless youth in Seattle. The tables are set once…
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Pennsylvania round in four parts
Editor’s Note: The following is an excerpt from the collection of short stories What She Was Saying by Marjorie Maddox (Fomite, 2017). I. Before…
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Musings on an inefficient life
Editor’s note: Each Thursday, we feature a throwback piece from Topology’s predecessor, catapult magazine. In this essay from 2012, Sylvia Keesmaat explores the value of…
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Orange silk
A splash of brilliant orange between many layers. A green dress, moth-eaten, in which she had once danced with her uniformed father amidst the…
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Loon egg: Memory of a place
“You are not welcome at the house because you abandoned the people who lived there.” There were a bunch of other words, but these…
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And then
The night she turned 40, she stopped speaking. Suddenly. Unplanned. The night unexpectantly there. Waiting. The night she turned. Not the morning filled with…
Read MoreTom McEnroe’s Last Sabbath
The Sabbath had its special place in his Irish heart A man of very few words & an early riser… Never late for church,…
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The loud silence of disbelief
What’s the surest way to shut down conversation in a group of Christians? It’s to say you’re not sure what you believe anymore. Ask…
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