Hagoth favors essays that can trace their lineage back to Michel de Montaigne; whether narrative, analytical, or devotional, these essays lean ruminative, conversational, meandering, impressionistic, and are reluctant to wax didactic. But that doesn’t mean you won’t find the occasional poem or piece of fiction here as well.
When you’re in your little room, and you’re working on something good…
A roundabout reminder that we are to “bear one another’s burdens, that they may be light”–and that not condescendingly, not patronizingly, but with a very real sense of our irrevocable interdependence, and of how that reliance on each other is what makes us feel alive.
On what Dante’s Inferno and a trip to the Vatican can remind us about LDS church leadership.
“Holy Ghost,” from Low’s 2013 album The Invisible Way, is lyrically the most straight-forward LDS song in their extensive catalogue.
“I love that man better who swears a stream as long as my arm yet deals justice to his neighbors and mercifully deals his substance to the poor, than the long, smooth-faced hypocrite.” -Joseph Smith
Ships of Hagoth is pleased to announce the release and publication of our first full-length message in a bottle, AND ALL ETERNITY SHOOK, by Jacob L. Bender, available in both paperback and ebook formats HERE. The book–a work of experimental nonfiction based upon the author’s own experiences–concerns a young missionary who comes home after two years in Puerto Rico only to find his mother on her deathbed.
i. The mountains were parched, their summer thirst unquenched by the usual store of snowpack. The reservoirs were dangerously low, and each day, the sky
A second excerpt from our forthcoming message in a bottle And All Eternity Shook, wherein a young missionary comes home after two years in Puerto Rico only to find his mother on her deathbed…
Jack Harrell’s 2007 short-story “Calling and Election” is a strange, uncomfortable, ambiguous freak of a story. I mean that endearingly. The story aggressively raises narrative
A young missionary comes home after two years in Puerto Rico only to find his mother on her deathbed.
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