Sarah Malone has published work in Five Chapters, PANK, The Common, The Collagist, The Awl, and elsewhere. She recently completed her MFA in Fiction at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, and is finishing a novel. She blogs at sarahwrotethat.com.
In my extended family, a generation ago, it was the odd household that didn’t have guns. I think that for my father’s father, a gun served mainly as another mechanical…