Rhoads Stevens, author of “Pork Pie” from the August issue, challenges everyone with a writing assignment and discusses nutnfancy’s view on war knives.

1. First, do you know if you really can bring weapons back from war. This seems true, but do people bring their own weapons to war now or are they always supplied? Is it a mix of the two? If they give you a gun, do you have an option to buy it after your tour is over?

A year ago, I watched a bunch of videos on YouTube about knives. They were knife reviews, and they were posted by someone going by the name “nutnfancy.” So I think this nutnfancy had something to say about people bringing knives to wars, and those knives just didn’t hold up. (I have to trust nutnfancy on that one.) And wasn’t Seymour Glass’ pistol from the war?

2. The man sitting beside me at this coffee shop is talking about politics and using the word “obviously” to begin every sentence. Say something political using the words “obviously,” “freedom,” and “hallmark.”

I am in no way qualified to say anything political, though it’s hard to think of a non-hallucinatory context in which the words “obviously” and “freedom” appear together. Here’s my attempt, but I know it makes me look like a twit: Obviously, bi-partisan politics pervert freedom, but isn’t perversion the hallmark of an almond rubbing against a walnut on the night of a lunar eclipse?

3. Sum up Pork Pie in 3 words or less.

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