by Sue Repko | Apr 6, 2020 | Mixed Genre, Other Nonfiction, Personal Essays
This critical volume provides sweeping testimony from survivors of just a fraction of U.S. school shootings, beginning in 2018 and working back chronologically to the University of Texas at Austin shooting in 1966, recognized as the first mass school shooting in the... by admin | May 15, 2019 | Personal Essays
“And Nobody Died That Day,” by Norah Vawter in Memoir Magazine, about a mother who is seriously disabled from a shooting, and her young daughter (the writer), who was also shot that day and recovers more completely physically, but is never the... by admin | May 15, 2019 | Personal Essays
“Ammunition,” by Bruce Snider in The Iowa Review, about a young man trying to understand his father and his PTSD, and whether he himself wants to carry a gun. by admin | May 15, 2019 | Personal Essays
“What to Do With a Man Who Has a Story, and a Gun,” by Lisa Romeo in Longreads, in which a young woman in her first serious relationship grapples with whether she can be with a man who always has a gun nearby. by admin | May 15, 2019 | Personal Essays
“What a Bullet Can Do,” by Sue Repko in Hazlitt, in which the writer relates the story of an unintentional shooting from her childhood and the various works of literature that helped her put it into context later in... by admin | May 15, 2019 | Personal Essays
“The Gun Show,” by Sue Repko in The Southeast Review, in which the author goes to a gun show for the first time, seeking to better understand her gunsmith father.