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Joel K. Douglas
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The Sand Trap
You’re gassing up at a Flying J just west of Rawlins, Wyoming, and the wind is having its way with you.The gusts come off the high plains at sixty miles an hour, shoving your truck door open, ripping…
Raven Rock. A House Divided
Act I. The MountainDanny Kowalski’s alarm went off at four-fifteen. He dressed in the dark so he wouldn’t wake the baby. Jeans, thermal, boots. His wife, Sarah, still asleep on her side. One arm over…
The Throw
The day before we started bombing, Iran agreed to stop stockpiling nuclear material.The day before.We bombed them anyway.This is a piece about what strength actually means. And what we do now.Act I.…
Dear Democrats. You're Close to Something Real. Don't Waste It.
Once upon a time, I might have been a Democrat.The theory sounds good. Love your neighbor. Build systems that catch people when they fall. Use the government to do what charity alone can’t. I’ve read…
The Last Petrov
Western Iraq. The Euphrates River Valley. Flat country. Date palms and canals and dust so fine it gets into the action of a rifle and into the boots and lungs of the men and women who carry them.The…
The Social Responsibility of the NFL is to Make Money
An eternity ago on a Sunday night. But it was never about Sunday night.Unseasonably warm in Dallas. Blue sky, few clouds. February but it doesn’t feel like it. Feels like a gift after the recent ice.…
Both Fly
Blue sky, golden grass, tall sagebrush, mountains capped white behind. Chores done. Coffee in the sun room. He looks out across the south pasture. The tips of the tall sage quiver. The wind picks up…
The Indomitable Maggie Chase Smith and the Tyranny of Reasonable Men
The Founders knew about the Leviathan.They had read their Bibles. Job. Isaiah. Ezekiel. The beast that cannot be bargained with. Cannot be tamed. Cannot be killed. They had lived under a king. They…
The Watchman
Kansas. Summer, 1936. The bluffs above the Missouri.The river didn’t look dangerous. Wide and brown and slow. Trees leaning over the banks. A boy could stand on the bluff and think he understood what…
Who Can Subdue the Leviathan?
There is the Leviathan.He moves in the deep,in the playground of God.He waits for his foodin its season.God asks,Can you draw him out with a fishhook?Put a cord through his nose?Make a covenant with…
The Emerald
There is the Leviathan.He moves in the deep,in the playground of God.He waits for his foodin its season.God asks,Can you draw him out with a fishhook?Put a cord through his nose?Make a covenant with…
Blood & Fruit
The banana cost forty-seven cents.I got it from the vending machine at work. I grab it on my way out to the parking lot. Fifteen minutes of freedom. The break room smells like microwaved fish. I just…
TWENTY-TWO
Act I. Tick Tock[SFX: The noise of New York City][Narrator] New York City in December. Manhattan. No snow yet, but the cold sits like it’s waiting for something.A kid walks home from work.…
Should Old Acquaintance Be Forgot?
[SFX: Solo Guitar playing Auld Lang Syne]Should old acquaintance be forgot, and never brought to mind? Should old acquaintance be forgot, and the days of long ago?We’ve forgotten the meaning of the…
A Christmas Carol for King George
This story is true. Except for the parts with the ghosts. [SFX: Theater applause]Dim the lights.Prologue. London. December, 1776.One lone leaf on the London plane outside the King’s window trembles…
Who Can the President Fire?
2025. The president fires an FTC commissioner before her term is up. The statute says he can’t without cause. He does it anyway. Now the Supreme Court has to decide whether ninety years of precedent…
Who Gave You Permission to Touch Our Sky?
Act I. The Sky WarSFX: Thunder rolling in the distance. A slow rotor hum. Laos. March 20th, 1967.A C-130 Hercules lifts off from Udon Royal Thai Air Force Base just after sunset. The crew has the…
Should Every Generation be Richer than their Parents?
Act I. The Golden Handcuffs(SFX: Blizzard wind.)January 1914. Highland Park, Michigan. Six degrees above zero.Ten thousand men press against the iron gates of the Ford Motor Company. Wool coats thin…
The House You'll Never Own
Act One. The Penny AuctionsNebraska, October 6, 1932. Five and a half miles southwest of Elgin, in the middle of farm country. Theresa Von Baum, a widow who worked her 80-acre farm with only the help…
Can a Nation Survive on Charity?
Act 1. Andrew CarnegieIt’s 1892. Homestead, Pennsylvania.Andrew Carnegie pays his steelworkers an average of $1.68 a day. About $56 in today’s money. Twelve-hour shifts. Six days a week.The workers…
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