Issue: Atheist Issue 2017

Bonnie Shiffler-Olsen & Trish Hopkinson

Three atheists and a Mormon walk into a café   The Bloody Mary mix is running low and they don’t serve decaf. We consider the things we must live wit...

Robert Perchan

NOTE LEFT AT THE TOMB OF SETH EL-MEDINEH: NECROPOLIS, THEBES   Dear Seth, Now that you are probably facing the netherworld Tribunal you were so worried abo...

Leilani Tandy

Oblivion When I die, I will fall into emptiness, emptiness as thick as molasses, And I with slowly drown in its sickly sweet smell. an endless nothing so infini...

Kyle Ross

Forgive Yourself   While the crowds of gods at Jupiter’s feet permitted the flood that would eradicate humanity, while they played their parts by giving silent ...

Jennifer Cox

Everything Who needs heaven when there are city apartments with black blankets that smell like you, kitchen windows the sun slips through, limbs to cross, sweat...

Emily Paige Wilson

The Tower   Babel has always bothered me: a god who could only see words as vessels for power; a god who feared being touched, whose height could be rivale...

John Hollins

[CREATIVE NONFICTION] Why I’m Not Religious and passed Algebra I There’s a point when you’re on your knees asking for forgiveness and crying into raggedy couch ...

Amy Atwood

Alfalfa Go to church with your parents when you’re six years old. Find your grandparents sitting in their usual spot, the same spot where they’ve been sitting s...

Christina Dalcher

Why I Won’t Be Saying Grace at Your Dinner Party I could tell you the raffia-embellished place cards you picked up at Pottery Barn are an exact color match for ...