As the year winds down, I’m so grateful to the literary magazines that have published some of my stories this year. This latest one, “The God Thing,” has an end-times, end-of-year flavor. It’s about faith and faithlessness, addiction and recovery, desert landscapes and Gothic churches – and whether it’s necessary or desirable for a secular Jew in the diaspora to believe in God. A big shout-out to JMWW for publishing it on Christmas, of all days, with beautiful pictures by Stan Honda. Read it here.