Fiction

November 2023

Among Friends

The Truth of Untruth

Introduction to our November issue. Martin Kelley
Features

Refuse All Their Colors

An unusual form of Quaker needlework tempts armies in the fall of 1777. Annalee Flower Horne
Features

Crushed

An Appalachian mining family struggles to find ways to survive. Michael Soika
Features

Sabbatical

A Friends pastor takes a trip to overcome grief and learns a lesson from some chickens. Vicki Winslow
Features

A Trip to Amity

An impatient minister is surprised. J. Brent Bill
Features

Empty Boots

A parable about the human costs of wars. Eric E. Sabelman
Features

And Hear Their Death-Knell Ringing

A teenager’s rocky relationship with her Quaker grandmother. Lynn Gazis
Online Features

The Quakers of Alice Elliott Dark’s Fellowship Point

A Friends Journal interview with the author of a new novel featuring two Quaker protagonists. Sharlee DiMenichi
Online Features

Pandora’s Gifts

A retelling of the Greek mythology. Anne E.G. Nydam
Online Features

Mrs. Trueblood’s Wisdom

Two rowdy boys learn to appreciate trees. Ken Gibble
Image by Sergey Yarochkin Online Features

A Young Quaker’s Voyage to Philadelphia

Traveling the ocean with William Penn. Herb Haigh
Poetry

The Garden of Adam

In the beginning, God hocked a wad of holy spit / into the dust, slushed it around, and rolled out Tamara Kreutz
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