The Strange Love of Dr. Billy James Hargis

The Last of Kenton

Horror in the Ouatchita Mountains

Grace in Broken Arrow

Private Manning and the Making of Wikileaks

The Inside Story of the Oklahoman Behind the Biggest Military Intelligence Leak Ever by Denver Nicks. Editor's note: Since it was first published in September of 2010, "Private Manning and the Making of Wikileaks" has been widely considered the definitive article on the life of Bradley Manning. It is the first article to correlate Manning's whistleblowing with that of the Silkwood/Kerr-Mcgee scandal, the first to extensively mine his social network for clues about his upbringing, and the first to debunk the common (and still pervasive) media myth that Manning was a troubled child with emotional problems. The reporting below, by...
Highs and Lows in Brady Heights

Broadway's Forgotten Man

Steps to Nowhere

Words by Michael D. Bates. *** Just north of downtown Tulsa there is a vast empty area, about a half-mile long by a third of a mile wide. This wasteland is punctuated only by the Salvation Army’s compound on the south end and a 1970s-vintage elementary school at the north end. The Oklahoma State University-Tulsa campus borders it on the east. Superimposed on the empty, green space is a grid of seldom-used streets, each one paralleled by a pair of buckled or overgrown sidewalks, interrupted periodically by the stub of a driveway. Where there is a steep enough incline from...
South by Midwest; Or, Where is Oklahoma?

Watts and Clary

Words by Steve Gerkin. *** Dressed only in his boxers, Wade Watts, a black civil rights activist, reclined on the sofa. He read the morning paper while bacon, eggs, and pork sausage sizzled in the kitchen. The cook leaned into the living room doorway. “Do you think your friend Martin Luther King, who dreamt that one day blacks and whites could come together, ever imagined it might include us?” Johnny Lee Clary, former Imperial Wizard of the White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, returned to the stove. From the other room, Watts, an evangelist and longtime leader of the...
Who's Afraid of Elohim City?

Subterranean Psychonaut

Brave New Park

BlueJacket, inside out.

Outlaw Canyon by Josh Kline

Murder by Samaritan by David A. Farris

The Tower of Power

The Nightmare of Dreamland
