Help Wanted: Dumb Sheep Needs Shepherd: (BASED ON A TRUE STORY)

It’s not for lack of tools that’s deterring him to write. He’s got enough of it. More than enough, for sure. His laptop may be three years old but it’s still better than a typewriter, though he sometimes wish he still had one of those family heirloom, that clunky yet sturdy, made-in-America—the land of the free but indebted—writing machine. He loves the steady clicks of it as he types as if validating his every word, every dictum, every idea he churns out. Then it speaks in silence when he’...