Abbreviations
AML Prize: Annual award in short story of the Association for Mormon Letters.
BYU Studies: Brigham Young University Studies
Christian Values Winner: Writing contest sponsored by the Center for Christian Values in Literature at Brigham Young University.
Christmas: Christmas for the World: A Gift to the Children. Edited by Curtis Taylor and Stan Zenk. Salt Lake City: Aspen Books, 1991.
Dialogue: Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought
Dialogue Award: Annual Dialogue Writing Award in fiction.
Greening Wheat: Greening Wheat: Fifteen Mormon Short Stories. Edited by Levi S. Peterson. Midvale, UT: Orion Books, 1983.
RMR: Rocky Mountain Review
Rocky Mountain Reader: Rocky Mountain Reader. Edited by Ray B. West, Jr. New York: E. P. Dutton, 1946.
Sunstone Contest: Annual Sunstone Fiction Contest, sponsored by the children of D. K. and Brookie Brown.
Twenty-two: Twenty-two Young Mormon Writers. Edited by Neal E. Lambert and Richard H. Cracroft. Provo, UT: Communications Workshop, 1975.
Utah Arts Council: Annual prize in short story of the Original Writing Contest of the Utah Arts Council.
Washed by a Wave: Washed by a Wave of Wind: Stories from the Corridor. Edited by M. Shayne Bell. Salt Lake City: Signature Books, 1993.
Allen, Penny. "Dandelions." Ensign, Mar. 1978.
_____. "Representation." Sunstone, Nov. 1991.
Allen, Rex. "Grandpa." Mountainwest, Nov. 1977.
Anderson, Paris. "You: A Missionary Story." Sunstone, Sept. 1987.
Anderson, Tory C. "After Dad Died." New Era, Apr. 1991.
Arrington, Chris Rigby. "Wheat Is for Man." Exponent II, Dec. 1976.
Bailey, Alice Morrey. "Until Death Only." RMR, Fall 1939.
Baker, Virginia Ellen. "Rachel's Wedding." First place in L. Ron Hubbard Writers of the Future Contest (1989, 3d quarter), published in Writers of the Future, Vol. 5 (Bridge Publications, 1989).
_____. "On the Last Day, God Created." Forthcoming in Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine and in Washed by a Wave.
Ballif, Arta Romney. "A Wedding Night." A Christian Values Winner; Literature and Belief, 1982.
Barnhurst, Kevin. "A Mormon Fairy Tale: The Elder and the Convert Lady." Exponent II, Spring 1981.
Bell, Elouise. "The Meeting." Only When I Laugh (Signature Books, 1990).
_____. "A Generous Heart." Christmas, 1991.
Bezzant, Pat. "Finale." Forthcoming in Washed by a Wave.
Black, Nancy. "A Marshmallow Santa for the New Born King." Christmas, 1991.
Brown, Marilyn. ''The Happiness Bird." Dialogue, Summer 1967.
Cannon, Ann Edwards. "Separate Prayers." Honorable Mention, Sunstone Contest, 1981; Sunstone, Nov.-Dec. 1981.
_____. ''The Quilt." Dialogue, Spring 1982.
Cannon, Blanche. ''The Promise." RMR, Summer 1945.
Carver, Wayne. "A Man of Fortune Greeting Heirs." Furioso, Summer 1950.
_____. ''The Country Behind." Furioso, Spring 1953.
_____. "The Price of Deer." Carleton Miscellany, Summer 1960.
_____. "Heroes Are Born." Esquire, Nov. 1961.
_____. "Benvenuto ad Anzio." Carleton Miscellany, Fall 1963.
_____. "With Voice of Joy and Praise." Western Humanities Review, Fall 1964; reprinted in Greening Wheat.
_____. "A Child's Christmas in Utah." Carleton Miscellany, Winter 1966; reprinted in Dialogue, Autumn 1972.
Cassity, Kevin. ''The Age-Old Problem of Who." Greening Wheat.
Christmas, R. A. "I Want a Prayer, Dad." Stories Southwest, edited by A. Wilber Stevens (Prescott College Press, 1973).
_____. "Another Angel." Dialogue, Summer 1981; AML Prize in 1981 and reprinted in Greening Wheat.
Clark, Dennis. "Answer to Prayer." Greening Wheat, 1983.
Clark, Marden J. Morgan Triumphs (Orion Books, 1984).
Coles, Christie Lund. "Victory Girl." RMR, Fall 1944.
_____. "The Tumbleweed." Mountainwest, Mar. 1976.
_____. "The Tomato Cure." Mountainwest, Apr. 1979.
Doty, Ann. "I Just Don't Think Anymore that It's Such a Big DealA Story about Clayboy and Jeanie." Twenty-two, 1975.
England, Karin Anderson. "Miscarriage." Dialogue, Fall 1992.
Evenson, Brian. "Amparo." Inscape, 1989.
Farmer, Gladys Clark. Elders and Sisters (Seagull Books, 1977).
Farnsworth, Kent A. "Counterpoint." Greening Wheat, 1983.
_____. "A Season and a Time." Twenty-two, 1975.
Fisher, Vardis. "Charivari." RMR, Spring-Summer 1939; reprinted in Ray B. West, Jr., ed., Rocky Mountain Stories (Sage Books, 1941).
Geary, Edward A. "Jack-Mormons." Dialogue, Spring 1989.
Hafen, Lyman. "Epsom Salts." First prize, Utah Arts Council, 1991.
Harker, Herbert. "Mr. Gregory." Christmas, 1991.
Hawkins, Lisa Bolin. "Muddy, Rising Waters." First place, Sunstone Contest, 1991; forthcoming in Sunstone.
Hawkinson, Sharon M. Only Strangers Travel (Bookcraft, 1984).
Howe, Susan. "Getting to Disneyland." First place, Sunstone Contest, 1988; Sunstone, Aug. 1990.
Hughes, Dean. "Sun on the Snow." Christmas, 1991.
Hurd, Jerrie. "Aunt Betsy." Dialogue, Autumn 1984.
Jolley, Clifton Holt. "Feeding the Fox: A Parable." Dialogue, Winter 1983.
Jones, Helen Walker. "Hot Leather and Chains." Mountainwest, July 1979.
_____. "The Snowdrift, the Swan." Dialogue, Autumn 1983.
_____. "After the Harvest." First prize, Utah Arts Council, 1984.
_____. "As Winter Comes On." Dialogue, Winter 1985.
_____. "Going Through the List." Sunstone, Apr. 1989.
_____. "The Six-Buck Fortune." First place, Dialogue Award, 1990; Dialogue, Fall 1990.
Kalpakian, Laura. Dark Continent and Other Stories (Penguin Books, 1989).
Kidd, Kathryn H. "Voucher and the Christmas Wars." Christmas, 1991.
Knowles, Mary. "Rosalie the Italian Bast." Mountainwest, June 1978.
Lake, Claudette. "Peculiar Ways." A Christian Values Winner; Literature and Belief, 1982.
Lane, Elizabeth. "The Pretending Place." Mountainwest, Mar. 1978.
Larson, Lance. "Sleeping Out." Inscape, Winter 1987.
Larson, Lynne. "Liberty Bolt!" Mountainwest, Jul. 1976.
_____. "The Bishop." Mountainwest, Aug. 1977.
_____. "Original Sin." Mountainwest, May 1978; reprinted in Greening Wheat, 1983.
_____. "Bawdy and Soul." Second place, Sunstone Contest, 1982; Sunstone, Mar.-Apr. 1982.
Littke, Lael. "The Chastity Gum." Dialogue, Fall 1990.
McDaniel, Mary Catherine. "A Little of What You Fancy." Third place (4th quarter, 1986) in the L. Ron Hubbard contest and published in Writers of the Future, Vol. 3, ed. Algis Budrys (Bridge Publication, 1987).
Miller, Rob Hollis. ''The Morns are Meeker than They Were." Exponent II, 1988.
[Molen], Patricia Hart. "A Ride in the Dark." Exponent II, Spring 1976.
_____. ''The Growler and Sandra House." Sunstone, Mar.-Apr. 1981.
_____. "At the Heart of the Labyrinth." BYU Studies, Summer 1981.
_____. ''The Black Door." Dialogue, Fall 1985.
Moon, Harold K. ''They Is Gold in Them Hills." Mountainwest, Apr. 1976.
_____. "From the Cypress Grove." Mountainwest, Feb. 1979.
_____. Possible Dreams (Brigham Young University, 1982).
Morris, Larry. "The Rock Crusher." Sunstone, Mar.-Apr. 1979.
Munk, Margaret R. "Searching." Dialogue, Winter 1981.
_____. "A Proposal." Honorable mention, Sunstone Contest, 1984; Sunstone, Sept. 1985.
Nichols, Julie. "Pennyroyal, Cohosh, Rue." Sunstone, May 1988.
Nicita, Carolyn. "Mechanical Assistance" and "Recycling." Both forthcoming in Tomorrow: Speculative Fiction Magazine.
Peterson, Joseph. "Yellow Dust." Sunstone, Sep.-Oct. 1979; reprinted in Greening Wheat, 1983.
_____. "A Ford Mustang." Dialogue, Summer 1980.
_____. ''The Genealogy of Della B. Paulsen." First place, Sunstone Contest, 1982; Sunstone, Jan.-Feb. 1982.
_____. "The Sure Word." Sunstone, Jan.- Feb. 1984.
Petsco, Bela. "The Mustard Seed." Twenty-two, 1975.
_____. Nothing Very Important and Other Stories (Meservydale Publishing Co., 1979).
Rogers, Kristin Smart. "Looking for God." Second place, Sunstone Contest, 1990; Sunstone, Nov. 1991.
Rogers, Thomas F. "Heart of the Fathers." Dialogue, Summer 1991.
Rozema, Mark. "Eye of the Beholder." Literature and Belief, 1992.
Rubilar, Lisa Madsen de. "Pure Thin Bones." Dialogue, Winter 1989.
_____. "Songs." Dialogue, Fall 1990.
Russell, Marla Zollinger. "What Wondering Brings." Second place, Sunstone Contest, 1981; Sunstone, Jan.-Feb. 1981.
Saderup, Dian. "A Blessing of Duty." Sunstone, May-Jun. 1979.
_____. "Out There." First place, Sunstone Contest, 1983; Sunstone, Jan.-Apr. 1983.
_____. "Turning." Dialogue, Spring 1987.
_____. "Earl." The New Era, Oct. 1989.
Sealy, Shirley. Beauty in Being (Butterfly Publishing, 1980).
Shelline, Stewart A. "When the Rains Came Down the River." First place, Sunstone Contest, 1986; Sunstone, Jan. 1988.
_____. "The Stream Winner." First prize, Utah Arts Council, 1986.
Smallwood, Susan Dean. "Gifts." Christmas, 1991.
Snell, George. "Young Love." RMR, Winter 1940.
_____. "Letter to Elsie." Ray B. West, Jr., ed., Rocky Mountain Stories (Sage Books, 1941).
_____. "Smoke in the Snow." RMR, Autumn 1945; reprinted in Rocky Mountain Reader, 1946.
Solomon, Michael. "The Sheet of Our True Lord Jesus." First place, Sunstone Contest, 1984; Sunstone, Jan. 1985.
Stewart, Ora Pate. "The Tramp," Texas Quarterly, Summer 1968.
Thornley, Diann. "A Distant Legacy." The Leading Edge: Magazine of Science Fiction and Fantasy, no. 6 (Fall 1983).
_____. "Thunderbird's Egg." Forthcoming in Washed by a Wave.
Thurman, Richard Young. "The Credit Line." Prize Stories of 1957: The O. Henry Awards.
_____. "Not Another Word." New Yorker, 25 May 1957; reprinted in Best American Short Stories, 1958 and in Ken Macrorie, Telling Writing (Hayden Books, 1970).
Thurston, Jarvis. "The One and Only Appearance of Jeez Christ on Sun Mountain." RMR, Spring 1945; reprinted in Rocky Mountain Reader, 1946.
_____. "The Cross," Western Review, Winter 1959; reprinted in J. Golden Taylor, ed., Great Short Stories of the West, Vol. 2 (Ballantine Books, 1971).
West, Ray B., Jr. ''The Blue Spring." Interim, 1946; reprinted in Rocky Mountain Reader, 1946.
_____. "The Ascent." Prize Stories, 1948: The O. Henry Awards.
_____. "The Last of the Grizzly Bears," Epoch, Fall 1950; reprinted in Baxter Hathaway, ed., Stories from Epoch (Cornell University Press, 1966), and in J. Golden Taylor, ed., Great Short Stories of the West, Vol. 2 (Ballantine Books, 1971).
Weyland, Jack. First Day of Forever, and Other Stories of LDS Youth (Horizon Publishing, 1981).
_____. Punch and Cookies Forever (Horizon Publishers, 1981).
_____. "Dallas Will Still Be There on Thursday." Ensign, June 1987.
_____. A Small Light in the Darkness (Deseret Book, 1987).
_____. "The Three Wise Guys." Christmas, 1991.
Witham, Craig. "Love Daddy Love." Second place, Sunstone Contest, 1985; Sunstone, Apr. 1987.
Wolverton, Dave. "On My Way to Paradise." First place (4th quarter, 1986) and winner of the Grand Prize in the L. Ron Hubbard Contest, published in Writers of the Future, vol. 3, ed. Algis Budrys (Bridge Publications, 1987).
_____. "Skyfish." Inscape, Fall 1986.
_____. "The Smiling Man." Inscape, Winter 1987.
_____. "Wheatfields, Beyond." Tomorrow: Speculative Fiction Magazine, Dec. 1992; forthcoming in Washed by a Wave.
Wright, David L. "Speak Ye Tenderly of Kings." Inland, Spring 1960.
_____. "A Measure of Contentment." The Humanist, Jul.-Aug. 1960.
_____. "A Summer in the Country." Mutiny, Fall 1960; reprinted in Best Articles and Stories, Mar. 1961, and in Sunstone, Fall 1976.
_____. ''The Hawk." Arizona Quarterly, Winter 1960; reprinted in Greening Wheat, 1983.
_____. "Mice Men and Principles." Mutiny, Fall-Winter 1961-62.
_____. "Of Pleasures and Palaces" (1961). Dialogue, Winter 1990.