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Religion
A woman limped out of a liquor store with the submissive stoop of the genuflected and the promise of
a liturgy to come in a bottle. A radiant, old face with the slight tremor of the merciful, holding
a brown paper bag reverently out in front of her with both hands as a priest holds his chalice.
And what would be the difference? She has been living, breathing and drinking the blood of Christ
in a lifetime of unparalleled singularity that the clergy can only read about and shamelessly attempt
to enact, mouthing their long-winded, incredulous interpretations of the Bible, done up like showgirls
in their mawkish vestments.
Meg Tuite has been published or will soon be published in Calliope, The Boston Literary Magazine,
SLAB Magazine, Santa Fe Literary Review, Fast Forward Press, Galleys Online Magazine, Crash, Jersey Devil Press,
Black Words on White Paper, Midnight Screaming Magazine, Sleet Magazine, Ink Monkey Magazine,
Blue Print Review and Fractured West out of the UK. She won a cash prize in the fiction contest
at Santa Fe College for a story that was published in the Fall 2009 contest issue.
Email: Meg Tuite
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