{"id":764,"date":"2023-11-18T19:24:29","date_gmt":"2023-11-18T19:24:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/live-usc-dornsife.pantheonsite.io\/goldlinepress\/?page_id=764"},"modified":"2023-11-21T22:27:13","modified_gmt":"2023-11-21T22:27:13","slug":"the-pulpit-vs-the-hole","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/goldlinepress\/the-pulpit-vs-the-hole\/","title":{"rendered":"THE PULPIT VS. THE HOLE"},"content":{"rendered":" \n\n \n \n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
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Ten, fifteen feet up, at hilltop, sat a sort of boulder, wedged waist-deep in the earth up there, perhaps having landed eons before, at high speed from a distant star. The Pulpit, they called it, though no one ever preached there. This mammoth rock with the weird bumps and pocks-its tumors, its acne-loomed there, unmoved. If you dared, you could sneak up from the back end trail and peek down here at the hymn-singers\u2019 heads, bowed down or bored but all the same oblivious. And you\u2019d be the eye in the sky.<\/em><\/p>\n

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“With descriptions that flash and sparkle with the same youthful exuberance of his young characters, Jay Shearer gives a different and welcomed kind of coming-of-age tale.\u00a0 This work is touching, surprising and, most of all, smart.”<\/p>\n

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Jay Shearer<\/strong>\u2019s writing has appeared in multiple publications, including Other Voices, Beloit Fiction Journal, Main Street Rag, Southeast Review,<\/em> and Southern Indiana Review<\/em>. He currently teaches at Purdue Calumet and the University of Illinois at Chicago. He lives in Chicago with his wife and two sons.<\/p>\n

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