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Annunciation

Elizabeth Creamer

What can I say to her? No Gabriel, I drive under an arch of trees dead in late winter and down a rock-graveled driveway littered with riding toys but...

Messianic Secret

Elizabeth Creamer

At a parish council meeting, some women clustering together decide, whispering so as not to be overheard and hurt his feelings, that the priest’s shirt, decidedly dirty (for God’s...