Body Language

Literary Hub is featuring an excerpt from a work of fiction that follows two novices, Nanette and Josie, as they visit a gun range in the Midwest. Josie, eager to begin the ministry part of her vocation, picks out a nine-millimeter Glock and explains that her father believes every woman should know how to load a gun. Nanette, meanwhile, is haunted by a conversation with her mother, who has Alzheimer's and once made her promise to tell her when the time came. The excerpt weaves together the women's calling to religious life with Nanette's suspicion that her sisters may be keeping their mother's secret separately.

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