Torrey House Press

Danielle Beazer Dubrasky

3 days ago

Reading the Signs

It is late October in Southern Utah. Lingering summer temperatures have confused the trees, their leaves still green, not gold nor brown...

Teow Lim Goh

Dec 13

Archives

In her book, Rivermouth: A Chronicle of Language, Faith, and Migration , Alejandra Oliva recounts the week she volunteered at the...

Kase Johnstun

Dec 10

The Book Club

On Thursday night, two days after the election, I walked through security at the newly built Utah State Penitentiary that sits on the...

Rebecca Lawton

Nov 28

Why Feathers?

They’re smaller than a breadbox but bigger than a beauty quark. Some are fluffed, some hooked, some slick as black-ice road. Some hide so...

Craig Childs

Nov 22

From the tree top

I climb into a bare-dead desert tree before sunrise and get out binoculars and a journal. The ground is frozen, sky clear, patches of...

Nicole Walker

Nov 21

Of Manuscripts and Meetings

On election day, I took my dogs on a walk and finished listening to the audiobook Parable of the Sower by Olivia Butler. This dystopian...

Amy Irvine

Nov 19

Scythians

A long time ago, before Genghis Khan, there were women, on horses, known loosely as Scythians. They rode in small nomadic clans, and rode...

Pam Houston

Nov 15

I will stay if you will stay.

A shooting star fell outside my bedroom window the other night. It was dark and cold with no moon, a white diamond, falling fast toward...

Zak Podmore

Nov 12

We're not going back, but maybe we should.

Bob Marshall was stranded in the rain 108 miles from the nearest settlement when his name appeared on the front page of the New York...