“You’re a waitress from a one-bedroom apartment in a bad part of town. You don’t fit into the life we’re building.” The words hung in the air between us like smoke. Sloan Montgomery stood in her wedding dress, all white silk and…
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At the family barbecue the year everything finally shattered, the air felt wrong before anyone said a word. It clung to my skin in a damp, sticky film—that particular late-summer humidity that transforms linen into wet rags and makes the lake below…
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My name is Harold Mitchell. I am sixty-seven years old, a retired United States Army lieutenant colonel and former IT security consultant, and I want to tell you about the night I stood in a county hospital in Southern California and looked…
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My friend Mark doesn’t tell emotional stories. He’s facts over feelings, a man who believes if something can’t be fixed with duct tape or common sense, it probably isn’t worth crying over. So when he told me this story last winter,…
Read MoreI Bought a Manor to End Their Game I used to get forgotten on December 25th so often that I finally stopped reminding them. This year, I bought an old manor to gift myself some peace. But the next morning, two black…
Read MoreThe Republican National Committee (RNC) filed a lawsuit Friday against Maryland election officials, alleging the state has failed to properly maintain its voter-registration rolls. According to the complaint, registration rates in several Maryland counties are “impossibly high,” with two of the state’s…
Read MoreThe first thing I noticed when I stepped into my new house was my phone lighting up on the kitchen counter like a frantic heartbeat. Sixteen missed calls, all from my daughter Laya. The screen pulsed with her name sliding up the…
Read MorePresident Donald Trump’s federalization of Washington, D.C.—which was initially met with mixed reactions—has yielded massive results on an issue that has long been hidden in plain view. Kyra Phillips, the anchor for ABC News, revealed on-air that she was “jumped” just two blocks…
Read MoreErika Kirk’s Words Take on New Meaning After Husband Charlie Kirk’s Assassination A Nation Shocked by Tragedy The nation was left stunned after conservative activist and Turning Point USA co-founder Charlie Kirk was gunned down during a university event in Utah. The…
Read MoreConservative activist Charlie Kirk, founder and executive director of Turning Point USA, shared a haunting final post online just minutes before his tragic death during a campus event in Utah. The 31-year-old commentator was addressing a large audience at Utah Valley University…
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