Sadie Hoagland has a PhD in fiction from the University of Utah and an MA in creative writing/fiction from UC Davis. She is the author of the short story collection American Grief in Four Stages. Her work has also appeared in the Alice Blue Review, the Black Herald, Mikrokosmos Journal, South Dakota Review, and elsewhere.
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In a polygamist commune in the desert, a fourteen-year-old boy and a twelve-year-old girl fall in love and consummate that love, breaking religious law. They are caught, and a year later, she gives birth to his father's child while the boy commits murder ... SEE MORE