Hey Who You Calling Slut
The noun in question turned up five years ago in Logsdon’s first shed short story, which described a high-school brawl with a “platinum-blond, black-polyester-topped shriek” named, strangely enough, Bryson. “I remembered what a slut she was,” Logsdon wrote, “and forgot the sorriness I’d been holding onto for her.” The nonfictional Bryson is suing for defamation claiming everybody in Shawneetown (population: 1,700) thought the character was her. Baby-sitting jobs, she claims, disappeared as a result....