The dizzying sequences of events, both comic and tragic, kept my interest throughout the book.

I venture/…into the heat/immerse myself/in the delicious sun

Goldenrod…Like silent fireworks

The Old Religion…./proved a threat to Christianity

A short story asking if evil is a presence or is it simply the result of human frailty

Our own brand of Quakers arose out of (a religious) buffeting and came to be called Hicksite in honor of the central role Elias Hicks played

Wisconsin’s prison system is already critically overcrowded