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Fiction
November 2025
Among Friends
Welcome to Our Fifth Annual Fiction Issue
Introduction to our November issue.
Martin Kelley
Features
What Is Actually There
Tiresome ministry by an older Friend becomes something more.
Peterson Toscano
Features
My Troublesome BFFs
Nineteenth-century Quaker troublemakers tumble out of the library stacks.
Margaret Cotton
Features
My Ghosts
Who will speak for the unmarked dead?
Lilian Edmonds
Features
A Fine Showing for the Court of Owls
Benjamin Lay comes back home from yearly meeting.
Jonathan Doering
Features
A Silver Trumpet Calls
Respectability and frivolity collide with a call to service.
Barbara Swander Miller
Features
A Quaker’s Gun
When the patriots came to seize the weapons.
Vickie Aldrich
Features
The Comfort of Horror
An interview with American author Chuck Wendig.
Sharlee DiMenichi
Online Features
Out of the Mouths
Simon’s mobile sounded as he finished breakfast. His wife answered, “Lambert residence, June speaking. Oh, hello Mrs. Thompson. . ."
John Crompton
Online Features
The Body
The sun trumpeted morning to the sleeping stranger, but Mark Jacobs didn’t return the greeting.
Nichole Nettleton
Online Features
Brothers
Over and over they were born, those brothers, always catching at each other’s heels.
Anne E.G. Nydam
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A Place to Begin
It was the tapping that first made Janice aware of him. She looked up and located the source of the…
Ken Gibble
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