About
Shelley Adina Bates holds an MFA in Writing Popular Fiction from Seton Hill University, where she was adjunct faculty for 19 years, and is in her third year of work on a PhD in Creative Writing at Lancaster University in the UK. She is supervised by Professor John Schad of the English & Creative…
The Disciples
The Perfect Christian Divine Way was incorporated in 1918, with three directors: W. E. Riker, chairman Anna Schramm, secretary Irvin B. Fisher The community at that time numbered perhaps a dozen. By the 1930 census, 33 men and 8 women were recorded as living at Holy City: William E. Riker – 58, head Lucille Riker…
The Enlightener
You know how it is. You’re coming to the end of your degree program and you’ve got a bad case of research overload. By now, research is down to typing a random keyword in Google and a desultory poking of the Enter button. Enlightener. That was the word I typed in the search box.…