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
Poetry

Coffee Hour, 1965

The ladies are staying far too long / after First Day School. We look for our  Sara Clancy
Poetry

Again

New snow falls gentle as a wish / Snow covers sallow earth Leigh Gavin Harder
Poetry

An Encounter

“And who is my neighbor?”—Luke 10:29 Anne Maren-Hogan
Forum

Forum, October 2025

Letters from our readers. Staff
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