Archive - William Shunn’s Main Wish Null

Salt Crusted on Automotive Glass

Between me and the decadent majesty of the salmon-red cliffs of eastern Utah, a ghost landscape stands sentinel. A poem.

Mar 1 •

February 2024

Book Talk: The Serial Killer’s Son Takes a Wife

Michael Libling writes like that affable stranger on the next barstool buying you drinks as he charms you with his stories. Next thing you’ve woken up…

Feb 26 •

August 2023

The Tylogram Summer Challenge Has a Winner!

Congratulations to our grand prize winner, who successfully vaulted the competition before all the clues were in.

Aug 22, 2023 •

July 2023

Mud thou art, and unto mud shalt thou return. Unless, that is, you're reckless enough to think you can transform yourself.

Jul 28, 2023 •

Announcing the Tylogram Summer Challenge!

Win bragging rights, eternal glory, and semi-valuable prizes if you can puzzle out our mystery word in the next thirty days.

Jul 24, 2023 •

The Long and Winding Road to Idaho

A homesick Mormon missionary embarks on an elaborate quest to get sent home without imperiling his soul. Easier said than done, on both counts.

Jul 12, 2023 •

November 2022

From Our Point of View We Had Moved to the Left

In an alternate America eerily like our own, a boys’ choir’s performance at the Inauguration portends a fascist future. Fiction for Election Day.

Nov 4, 2022 •

October 2022

The Visitors at Wriggly Field

The Cubs in the World Series? In 2012 this can only mean something nefarious is afoot. Will Ferdinand “Bull” Schmidt make it to the men’s room in time…

Oct 28, 2022 •

Mechanisms for transmitting words and thoughts and emotions across the gulfs of time and space are not exclusively recent phenomena.

Oct 7, 2022 •

This morning I came downstairs to find that you’d thrown out all the pictures of us.

Oct 2, 2022 •

September 2022

Why I Relate to Tyler Glenn’s “Trash”

Yes, the controversial music video defaces sacred LDS symbols, but in doing so it brings to visceral life the nightmare journey of the apostate.

Sep 23, 2022 •

Bondage Bunny and the Clothes Dryer of Doom

An intrepid plush rabbit in search of illicit thrills finds their entire world turned upside down and sideways. A story in 23 photographs.

Sep 16, 2022 •

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