More often than not, reality is stranger than anything we could possibly invent. Did the Boy Scouts really just eat the ice cream bought for the Young Women’s activity? Did that sign on the drive-thru just answer your prayer? Did you run into your childhood seminary teacher on a train in India, only to address head-on your spiritual famine?
To write these accounts as fiction would make the stories seem unfathomable, possibly unbelievable. But the universe is a wild, weird thing.
What have you seen or experienced that felt stranger than fiction? Tell us something that made you think, “I cannot believe that actually happened.” What are your tall tales that played out in real life, and how do you make meaning of them now? We are here for the heartbreaking, the shocking, the humorous, the healing, and anything else that gets stirred up. If it happened, we want to hear it.
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