The Devil

Inspired by the Devil tarot card, Salem Grey explores how deception, division, and evil can hide in plain sight, within our churches, families, and everyday lives.
...an online literary journal
...an online literary journal

Inspired by the Devil tarot card, Salem Grey explores how deception, division, and evil can hide in plain sight, within our churches, families, and everyday lives.

In addiction treatment, we often remind our clients, “The opposite of addiction is connection.” It’s true that addiction is often a disease born of disconnection, of not belonging, of not feeling worthy to belong, of being born on the outside…

You would think that the first time you “did it” would be memorable. Well, I can tell you from a first-hand observer’s experience that it was. Rumors had been flying for weeks. Would they do it? When? Where? Now that…

Big changes are coming – the beginning of a new cycle on the wheel of fortune. A big change would be to meet a woman who is not out of her mind, is supportive of my projects as I am…

I am the Tarot’s mythical Super Star. I am the twinkle in men’s eyes. I have delighted you in dance, opera, and theater; when I dance, I fly and need not touch the ground. The angels envy me because my…

After the chaos of the past year when so much of the world became a desert of drought, destoying vast tracts of farmlands, then burning trees and animals. Rain should be welcome, but it slides away into floods. A jungle…

It is what you make of it, your world. But is it really all you’ve got? Your hands representing creativity, your feet representing mobility, your senses like windows to all that surrounds you. Touch is the panorama, your skin the…

“You think you see two?” I sputtered, baffled. “Two what?” The wand, bathed in the warmed gel, glided across my massive, otherworldly belly, searching, probing. I had been here so often before, this was now starting to seem like some…

If unassisted, I can move from my bed to a wheelchair, someday I might be able to stand up again, and learn to use a walker. The staff nurse just brought in a box wrapped in silvery blue foil, adorned…