by admin | May 15, 2019 | Personal Essays
“Our Truth,” an award-winning essay by 13-year-old Sandra Parks, about gun violence in her home city of Milwaukee. Two years after her essay took third place in her school’s Martin Luther King, Jr. essay contest, she was killed by a stray bullet while in her bedroom.... by admin | May 15, 2019 | Personal Essays
“9mm,” by Rebecca Hazelwood in Hobart, where a writer wrestles with whether to buy a pistol after a beloved relative points one at her. by admin | May 15, 2019 | Personal Essays
“The Day I Told My Father to Kill Himself,” by Jennifer Fliss in Narratively. An adult woman looks back on a childhood marked by the perpetual threat of gun violence in a home filled with guns and an alcoholic, abusive... 
by admin | May 15, 2019 | Memoirs
The Suicide Index: Putting My Father’s Death in Order by Joan Wickersham After the author’s father completes suicide by gun, she uses the form of an index as a way to bring some order to all of the confusing and confounding aftershocks. How can she make... 
by admin | May 15, 2019 | Memoirs
The Blessing by Gregory Orr In this compact and haunting memoir, this longtime professor of English at the University of Virginia shares the impact of his unintentional shooting of a younger brother, when he himself was just 12 years old, while hunting with his father...