LESLIE L. STEVENS · WRITER & INVESTIGATIVE RESEARCHER
Nothing here is hidden. We have only learned not to look.
Fiction, essays, and documentary stories by Leslie L. Stevens. Written from Marfa, Texas.
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THE ARCHIVE · DOCUMENTARY ESSAY · 7:46
We Built the Butcher
Mary Hogan ran a tavern. Bernice Worden ran a hardware store. Their killer became a horror blueprint. Whose life gets room when the story is told again?
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Selected essays
- The Socks Were Folded A sixteen-year-old girl was murdered in 1986. Texas spent forty years talking about everything else.
- Who Disappears From the Sentence On passive voice, and where responsibility is allowed to remain.
- My Hands Kept the Record Twenty-four years in professional kitchens, written on the body.
- We Built the Butcher Mary Hogan, Bernice Worden, and the industry that turned their killer into a horror blueprint.
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