As Told by the Holy Woman in Her Own Words A Hundred or So Years after the End of the World That afternoon he sentenced three more men to death for various infractions. In the evening Jonathan came to the Lady House asking to speak with Belinda and [more]

As Told by the Holy Woman in Her Own Words A Hundred or So Years after the End of the World Next day, after he’d sentenced a salmon fisherman to death for poaching on the preserve of an ancient tribe known as the People who lived to the [more]

As Told by the Holy Woman in Her Own Words A Hundred or So Years after the End of the World Nothing had changed, nothing. I returned to the Lady House in a deep funk. That evening over our bowls of vegetable broth Belinda tried to cheer me [more]

As Told by the Holy Woman in Her Own Words A Hundred or So Years after the End of the World How the Duke began to hear things, and Jonathan’s dilemma “Mercy, Christina!” Belinda sat up quickly in her rocker on the porch when I lit down in [more]

As Told by the Holy Woman in Her Own Words A Hundred or So Years after the End of the World At this moment in linear mortal time, I understood, we were in the process of replacing our lost history with something else. Just as the bear had [more]

As Told by the Holy Woman in Her Own Words A Hundred or So Years after the End of the World I was a soul being sung by the Light. I lived in this blessed state for what felt like an eternity, watching the rise and fall of [more]

As Told by the Holy Woman in Her Own Words A Hundred or So Years after the End of the World I called on Giver, but it seemed to me Giver was saying by this silence—a bit like Chickie the bear—it was time I inhabited the grace inside [more]

As Told by the Holy Woman in Her Own Words A Hundred or So Years after the End of the World The very next morning I said goodbye to Belinda outside the Lady House. Then before her startled eyes—for by this point I rarely used my physical superpowers—I [more]

As Told by the Holy Woman in Her Own Words A Hundred or So Years after the End of the World On the surface all was well, but inside I felt restless. I was happy to give up performing feats with my indestructible mortal body and concentrate instead [more]

As Told by the Holy Woman in Her Own Words A Hundred or So Years after the End of the World Always, always he came back to the Great Miasma. What happened? Why can’t we remember it? Each time Giver sent me the picture of an enormous blank [more]

As Told by the Holy Woman in Her Own Words A Hundred or So Years after the End of the World Thus began the long and complicated business of socializing the Frog Creek cow-girl, a process that would alter me for better but also for worse. Even in [more]

As Told by the Holy Woman in Her Own Words A Hundred or So Years after the End of the World How I learned to remember the future The next day the two oldest sons were missing from the dais. Thanks to Chickie, the Duke had averted catastrophe, [more]

As Told by the Holy Woman in Her Own Words A Hundred or So Years after the End of the World The Duke stood up quickly when I told him this. “Jonathan,” he said to the boy, “Are you loyal to me?” Jonathan stood straighter and said, “I’m [more]

As Told by the Holy Woman in Her Own Words A Hundred or So Years after the End of the World Shortly thereafter, one of the young boys appeared at the bedchamber door with a small brown bear in tow. The bear had beady little eyes and fluffy [more]

As Told by the Holy Woman in Her Own Words A Hundred or So Years after the End of the World Words had never come easily to me. But then I remembered I’d managed to deliver a few sharp comments the day before. So I gathered up my [more]

As Told by the Holy Woman in Her Own Words A Hundred or So Years after the End of the World How I spoke with the Duke’s bear and saved the Duke from a plot “Once upon a time Philip was a good man,” Belinda said. We were [more]

As Told by the Holy Woman in Her Own Words A Hundred or So Years after the End of the World How the Duke tried to take my virginity but could not The guards marched me out of the room, up a staircase, then down another long hallway [more]

As Told by the Holy Woman in Her Own Words A Hundred or So Years after the End of the World The Duke sat back. A handsome man, intelligent and spoiled. When he had first peered at me in the terrible chair, I had sensed an interesting presence. [more]

As Told by the Holy Woman in Her Own Words A Hundred or So Years after the End of the World How I accepted bread from the Duke and olive oil flowed from my breasts The Duke’s guards came for me the very next morning. Belinda had dressed [more]

As a break from the interminable Christina (*only*  22 episodes to go!), a life story instead: Last weekend I was the guest on a traveling live radio show/musical event known as Radio8Ball that is run by SyncHeads. SyncHeads are a wide-ranging group born out of vaguely Jungian-9/11 conspiracy [more]

As Told by the Holy Woman in Her Own Words A Hundred or So Years after the End of the World “Are you planning to fly away?” “Not right now.” I was too exhausted to think of escaping. I also thought I heard Giver whispering I should stay [more]

As Told by the Holy Woman in Her Own Words A Hundred or So Years after the End of the World How I came to live in the castle of Sequoia and the miracles I performed there Clad only in a rough burlap shroud (all they had by [more]

As Told by the Holy Woman in Her Own Words A Hundred or So Years after the End of the World Dead again at last! My soul swelled with joy. Free of my body, I was getting ready to rise straight through the roof to the joyful world [more]

As Told by the Holy Woman in Her Own Words A Hundred or So Years after the End of the World There was a commotion in the hallway and one of the attendants went to the door. He scurried back and whispered in the stocky man’s ear, “Dr. [more]

As Told by the Holy Woman in Her Own Words A Hundred or So Years after the End of the World He left me shackled all night with no food or water, which my indestructible mortal body did not need but still sorely wanted. The next morning he [more]

As Told by the Holy Woman in Her Own Words A Hundred or So Years after the End of the World How I died my second death in the Hygiene Maintenance Facility of the duchy of Sequoia, and what happened afterward This time when we reached the Hygiene [more]

In the 1990s a genius down in Los Angeles by the name of Daniel Nussbaum published PL8SPK, a book in the shape of a silver license plate retelling famous stories using only the words found on actual California vanity car license plates. He calls it graffiti for the [more]

As Told by the Holy Woman in Her Own Words A Hundred or So Years after the End of the World Matilda never failed to remind me of the trouble I’d caused for them with the Duke. With each passing day it seemed to be bothering her more, [more]

As Told by the Holy Woman in Her Own Words A Hundred or So Years after the End of the World How I went back to Sequoia, where my sister betrayed me again So I made my way north again. This time I flew straight as an arrow, [more]

As Told by the Holy Woman in Her Own Words A Hundred or So Years after the End of the World I blinked and wiped the blood out of my eyes with my sleeve. When I tried to clear my throat, blood gushed out of the wound again. [more]

As Told by the Holy Woman in Her Own Words A Hundred or So Years after the End of the World How I came to live under the bay, and what I decided there   By dawn I’d reached the eastern edge of the bay, where the ruins [more]

As Told by the Holy Woman in Her Own Words A Hundred or So Years after the End of the World I sat down heavily and plunged my arm in the pail of water, where it disappeared in a cloud of hissing steam. When I drew it out [more]

As Told by the Holy Woman in Her Own Words A Hundred or So Years after the End of the World Standing to one side but still in view of all the people, Travis called out in a loud half-mocking voice, “Show us, Christina! Show us what coming [more]

As Told by the Holy Woman in Her Own Words A Hundred or So Years after the End of the World When I asked him where we were, Martin laughed. “Have you never been in a theater before?” I shook my head. “Have you seen traveling shows of [more]

As Told by the Holy Woman in Her Own Words A Hundred or So Years after the End of the World How I was displayed to a large group of people at the place called Fillmore The very next week Martin told me the venue was ready. Travis [more]

As Told by the Holy Woman in Her Own Words A Hundred or So Years after the End of the World Martin seemed to be thinking hard. “I know of a venue,” he said finally, “that would allow you to bring your message to many, many people in [more]

As Told by the Holy Woman in Her Own Words A Hundred or So Years after the End of the World All the interest he showed made me very happy. Martin was the first person to show real curiosity about my indestructible mortal body, and so far he [more]

As Told by the Holy Woman in Her Own Words A Hundred or So Years after the End of the World The baker drained his cup noisily, his Adam’s apple bobbing up and down like a piston rod. He set it down with a bang. “You may be [more]

As Told by the Holy Woman in Her Own Words A Hundred or So Years after the End of the World The baker opened an ancient white icebox in the corner and took out a dish of butter and a wheel of cheese. Then he drew two flagons [more]

As Told by the Holy Woman in Her Own Words A Hundred or So Years after the End of the World The baker didn’t notice my burned hands when he came in at noontime. He only saw I’d loaded and unloaded all the trays and kept the wood [more]

As Told by the Holy Woman in Her Own Words A Hundred or So Years after the End of the World He beckoned me through an open door behind the counter into a big windowless kitchen. Next to a long wooden table whose surface was dusted with flour [more]

As Told by the Holy Woman in Her Own Words A Hundred or So Years after the End of the World How I came to live and work in a bakery, and demonstrated my powers My stay in the Official Orthodox Holy Giver House of Francisco Kingdom lasted [more]

As Told by the Holy Woman in Her Own Words A Hundred or So Years after the End of the World I came to lying flat on my back with all the women gathered around me. I had twirled for six hours straight, one of them told me. [more]

As Told by the Holy Woman in Her Own Words A Hundred or So Years after the End of the World How I whirled like a dervish in the ladies’ religious house and sang at midnight I found myself in the biggest room I had ever seen in [more]

As Told by the Holy Woman in Her Own Words A Hundred or So Years after the End of the World A woman in a headdress stood guard inside the entrance. Her clean white tunic was smooth as stone, but it wasn’t the synthetic material we all wore—could [more]

As Told by the Holy Woman in Her Own Words A Hundred or So Years after the End of the World In the center of the white city the tops of the guano-streaked buildings were as blackened and lightning-struck as the crowns of the giant redwoods in my [more]

As Told by the Holy Woman in Her Own Words A Hundred or So Years after the End of the World I wanted to find the Ladies’ Giver House the woman on the trail had mentioned, so I asked directions of a man passing by who carried his [more]

As Told by the Holy Woman in Her Own Words A Hundred or So Years after the End of the World On the eighth day three bad men tried to drag me into an abandoned mine next to the Russian River. I broke loose from them and ran [more]

As Told by the Holy Woman in Her Own Words A Hundred or So Years after the End of the World How I came to the white city and what happened to me there Living alone at the top of a great redwood tree was deeply pleasing to [more]

As Told by the Holy Woman in Her Own Words A Hundred or So Years after the End of the World I twisted and turned my hands in their metal cuffs. Finally, at the expense of a great deal of skin, I got them loose. But now that [more]

As Told by the Holy Woman in Her Own Words A Hundred or So Years after the End of the World It was almost sunset. Sky and ocean turned red as my blood under the dark purple rain clouds massing overhead. Heading north, I flew over the settlement [more]

As Told by the Holy Woman in Her Own Words A Hundred or So Years after the End of the World I tried explaining this to the tall man, but he said nothing. We were following the long trail next to the Big River and the buggy wheels [more]

As Told by the Holy Woman in Her Own Words A Hundred or So Years after the End of the World (yesterday’s last lines: “I want to talk with you.”       Thinking this would give me a chance to tell him about the world of Light and Love, [more]

As Told by the Holy Woman in Her Own Words A Hundred or So Years after the End of the World (yesterday’s last line: Thinking this would give me a chance to tell him about the world of Light and Love, I leaped off the branch and lit [more]

As Told by the Holy Woman in Her Own Words A Hundred or So Years after the End of the World How I was caught by the authorities and ran away and fed myself from my own breasts When I walked out of our cabin the next day, [more]

As Told by the Holy Woman in Her Own Words A Hundred or So Years after the End of the World What happened to me while I was dead and why I chose to come back from the world of Light and Love I must say, it was [more]

As Told by the Holy Woman in Her Own Words A Hundred or So Years after the End of the World How I was granted my wish to die but came back unexpectedly and created havoc So I grew sick in my body not, as many people did, [more]

As Told by the Holy Woman in Her Own Words A Hundred or So Years after the End of the World … After losing our mother and father within months of each other, my two sisters and I decided to set up our home after the manner of [more]

As Told by the Holy Woman in Her Own Words A Hundred or So Years after the End of the World The circumstances surrounding my first death At the time of my first death I was twenty years old. I lived with my two sisters in a rustic [more]