by admin | May 15, 2019 | Personal Essays
“Standoff,” by Sue Repko in Aquifer: The Florida Review Online, in which the writer tries to imagine what’s going through the mind of the man keeping the police at bay. by admin | May 15, 2019 | Personal Essays
“Gun-Sitting,” by Sue Repko in Hippocampus, where the writer is teaching a group of 7th graders in her hometown. A casual comment by a student sends her back to an unintentional shooting and the gun culture of her youth. This piece considers safe storage and parental... 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 | Personal Essays
“Half-Life,” by Lisa Ellison in Kenyon Review Online. A woman recalls her brother and the 20th anniversary of his suicide.