Words Like Locusts Flew From Her Fingers

A Reason for Hope

Death in Duluth by Dennis McManus, Reader Weekly, Issue 333, August 25, 2005
Considering the circumstances of our society which make hunting unnecessary, hunting is every bit as immoral an act to me as abortion and war are to others. I am just as saddened, just as angered, just as disgusted that the society I live in condones it as those other people are about abortion and war. The notion that any of us are just supposed to shut up about it is truly totalitarian and isn’t going to happen.

Dennis McManus is truly a kindred soul.

Sometimes it can feel like you’re the only person in the world who really gives a damn about animals — who really understands that they don’t exist simply for our use. Then, you run across something like this wonderful piece written by McManus for Duluth’s Reader and you take heart.

It’s good to know you’re not alone.

It gives a person a reason to hope for a better world.