Fundamentalism Stories

Imagine if the great pandemic lasted over four years. Imagine if over a billion people died, and imagine what would happen, forty years later, if the world finds out tha...

Hermione Scott found her happy place, and the family she had always wanted, in Meadvale, the church community that embraced her and then made her one of their own. But j...

The signing of a new anti-gay law by Uganda's president comes as one of many recent acts against homosexuals throughout Africa, following Russia which last summer passed...

Eighteen year old Allegra DiAmicci and her friends Vanessa Sanchez and Rosa Conception are excited, for it is their prom night. A night of spending time with each other...

Jim Jones, a charismatic leader who promised his followers' in this temple cult a good life, but ordered a mass suicide instead.

A collection of poems I wrote ages 13 to 31 that show how I grapple with neurodivergence, gender roles, and the conservative fundamentalist environment I was raised in...

A 500-word short based on criteria for the #MyHandmaidsTale contest. When fertility is considered next to godliness, where do the infertile belong?

Standing at the obelisk looking down at the burning castle, DanDan's gaze drifts into the middle distance as clarity like a dove descends from the blue wash of the sky...

The Hindu fundamentalism is a misnomer, coined by the cunning and subscribed by the naïve, which had come in handy to the Semitic proselytizers to undermine the Indian n...

Everybody was convinced that the great Sherlock Holmes has lost touch with reality. After a major psychotic episode in Baker Street, Mycroft decided to send the detectiv...

This year, one of our assignments in English class was to write a "letter" to an abstract concept. It could be anything from hope, to love, to fear, to war, to...

The holy text for the most motherfuckin' realest religion.

This is an excerpt from my book, The Ultimate Religion - Taken in by a Cult, Finding the Real Truth. In this chapter Megan, the protagonist, has just been driven out of...

Some of our existential experiences and thoughts at times rock us at our core. They make us question the nature of reality. We want to pursue them not only in order to m...