The Jesus He Deserved

Sean Davis, author of The Wax Bullet War, and contributor to The Misfit Manifesto, is a Purple Heart Iraq War veteran, winner of the 2015 Legionaire of the Year Award from the American Legion, & recipient of the 2016 Emily Gottfried Emerging Leader, Human Rights award. His stories, essays, & journalism have appeared in the Ted Talk Book The Misfit's Manifesto (Simon & Schuster), Forest Ave. Press anthol. City of Weird, Sixty Minutes, Story Corps, Gobshite Quarterly, Flaunt Magazine, Human the movie, The Big Smoke. Among other things, he is the former commander of American Legion Post 134, Portland Oregon; a seasonal firefighter for the US Forest Service; and was a Portland Oregon mayoral candidate in 2016 His book Wildland Firefighting in Oregon: A History will be released by the History Press in Feb., 2019.Earlier versions of some Sean Davis pces. in this collection have appeared in Gobshite Quarterly, The Big Smoke, The Goodmen Proj., War Stories anthol., Perceptions, and The Talking River Lit. Magazine. Sean's story, Being the True Story About the Time I Waterboarded People in Portland, Oregon, for Blackwater, was shortlisted for The Iowa Review's 2018 Jeff Sharlet Memorial Award for Veterans contest.