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THIRTY-FIVE Well, for me there’s always the question of what he—or ‘they’?—would be doing. I mean, are they just wandering the earth? If you have that much time on your hands, what would you do? I know that a lot of the tales and folklore have them doing good deeds, but I wonder if they would actual...

- THIRTY-FOUR - After two nights at the Desert Motel and half a day spent searching the classifieds, Sam packed up his things and moved to a cheap studio apartment in Reno, just off Sutro. He went back to the house to get some more of his clothes, along with some books and the TV set, and some of hi...

Part FOUR Outer Darkness "The apostate is generally in need of self-justification. He seeks to reconstruct his own past, to excuse his former affiliations, and to blame those who were formerly his closest associates. Not uncommonly the apostate learns to rehearse an 'atrocity story' to explain...

- THIRTY-TWO - As they drove home, Sam couldn’t help but feel that forces were aligning themselves against him. Sitting in the chapel during conference, he had again felt the stares of various fellow Saints. It wasn’t everybody, but it was enough that he could feel it. “So,” he said, as they drove d...

- THIRTY-ONE - The Brethren had all filed into the tabernacle, a building that, when seen from the outside, shone like a silvery shield in the pale autumn sunlight. The General Authorities sat up at the front, near the Mormon Tabernacle Choir, where they looked out upon the great sea of Saints who h...

- THIRTY - General Conference. There was really no way that he was getting out of it. In the days following his confession to Emily, Sam had done everything in his power to reconnect with his wife. He told her that he still loved her, and that he would do anything for her and Kaylee. He said that he...

- TWENTY-NINE - A thin blade of sunlight was coming through the gap in the dark velvet curtains in the office of LDS Church President Alma Grange Baylor. The light was visible because of the dust motes in the air: they fluttered and shifted in the sunlight so that it seemed as if a luminous pane of ...

- TWENTY-EIGHT - The final “click” in his mind occurred when he was driving home from work. This was the moment that he would later locate as being the key moment when the truth dawned on him, when he at last allowed himself to acknowledge that he no longer believed the claims of the Church. He said...

- TWENTY-SEVEN - Editor’s Introduction: The Loki of Anti-Mormondom Merlyn K. Young The Journal of HIDM – Vol. 23, Issue 2 – Spring 1992 – pg. iv-xx Orem, Utah: The Turley J. Hinton Institute for the Defense of Mormonism The views expressed in this article are the author’s own, and in no way should t...

- TWENTY-SIX - The dog-days of summer. Sam had done an efficient job of fending off Bishop Gladden’s attempts to set up a meeting. But the people closest to him had begun to sense that something was wrong. A week or so after the trip to the Oakland Temple, Sam began looking in earnest for material o...