Every two weeks or so I am publishing an essay from an emerging writer. This week, we are publishing “The Whacking Game” by Amy McLay Paterson. Amy is a writer, mother, librarian, and union negotiator, originally from New Brunswick, Canada. She likes to shoot her longbow, bake cakes for her loved ones (and occasionally for her enemies), climb walls badl…
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