Samuel Jensen Samuel Jensen is a writer from El Paso, Texas. He holds an MFA from the Helen Zell Writers’ Program at the University of Michigan. His stories have appeared in The Sun, swamp pink, The Kenyon Review, Strange Horizons, and elsewhere.

Mormon Lake Hotshots | Fiction

Samuel Jensen

They sat under the stars and he had finally, a little after the fact, brought her around. Henry had expected all sorts of things from the process of moving from the city to the desert, but the one thing he hadn’t foreseen was his wife’s hesitation. He’d conquered his own in private, before mentioning the idea. Then he’d accidentally made Naomi perform hers in the open. His wife — who...