President Dave had always just requested the dollar dues count from Treasurer John when the door at the bottom of the stairs would bang open and clatter shut, heralding the beginning of Faith’s noisy assault on the creaking stairs, carrying her canvas bag stuffed with hymns and clippings.
Ben Miller
Ben Miller's work has appeared in Best American Essays, Best American Experimental Writing, Kenyon Review, Raritan, AGNI, New England Review, Harvard Review, Antioch Review, Salmagundi, Yale Review, Southern Review, Fiction International, and other venues. He is the author of River Bend Chronicle: The Junkification of a Boyhood Idyll Amid the Curious Glory of Urban Iowa (Lookout Books). Miller has held creative writing fellowships from the NEA and the Radcliffe Institute at Harvard University, and grants from the South Dakota Arts Council and the Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America.