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Praying for a Righteous Smack Down: The Amazing Adventures of Smitey Man

Analysis, Creative Writing, Gary Walker, Nonfiction / By

Let’s say something bad happens to a guy. Maybe we don’t know if he had it coming. It could be a car accident, a life-altering injury, or a terrible disease. Perhaps he loses everything he owns in a natural disaster, or worse, gets caught with his hands in a metaphorical cookie jar. One day, everything’s fine, the […]

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Matthew Shepard, The Westboro Baptist Church, and the American Conscience

Analysis, Nonfiction, Writings / By

On a slightly elevated plain just east of Laramie, Wyoming on October 7, 1998, Aaron McKinney and Russell Henderson beat and tortured Matthew Shepard nearly to death, tied him to a buck fence, and left him for dead. After being discovered by a passing cyclist, Shepard was transported to a Fort Collins, Colorado hospital where he was

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