Whispers With Claws

Malicious gossip debases everyone involved.
Whispers With Claws
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Jeff Minick
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Imagine yourself as a defendant in a courtroom.

The judge selects the jury. The prosecution presents its case against you for some heinous but undefined crime, calling to the stand its witnesses, none of whom go unchallenged. When it’s time to present your case, your attorney rises and says, “The defense rests, your honor.”

Jeff Minick
Jeff Minick
Author
Jeff Minick has four children and a growing platoon of grandchildren. For 20 years, he taught history, literature, and Latin to seminars of homeschooling students in Asheville, N.C. He is the author of two novels, “Amanda Bell” and “Dust on Their Wings,” and two works of nonfiction, “Learning as I Go” and “Movies Make the Man.” Today, he lives and writes in Front Royal, Va.