She is planning to move from her tiny flat to a bungalow in Haywards Heath because she needs an extra bedroom for a carer to sleep in, and a bigger bathroom so a helper can be present. ‘I feel like I’m 80 years old sometimes,’ she says, and soon she will start losing her cherished independence.However, rape was included in the indictment against Smith as one of the factors making him eligible for the death penalty.She was a thalidomide baby, born without arms or legs, just tiny hands and feet attached like flippers to her torso. Five decades of distortions and contortions are taking their toll. The move will cost hundreds of thousands of pounds. A few months ago, I went to a luncheon for the family law section of the Tarrant County Bar Association.

Attorneys for Steven Smith tell the state parole board that while he intended to rape his girlfriend’s 6-month-old daughter, Smith never intended to kill the girl.

Forms of creative nonfiction include literary journalism, the memoir, the lyric essay, the prose poem, and the nonfiction short.

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Condemned killer Steven Smith’s argument for mercy isn’t an easy one.

In short form, it's an alternative to the traditional newspaper pyramid structure (in which, if you lopped off the bottom part of the story, the reader would still have all the key information).

With narrative nonfiction you don't present the main point in the first paragraphcompelling narrative keeps the reader reading to find out what happens, and the journey to the epiphany is half the point.