mass shooting

Politics, Rumpus Original

Loren Kleinman

Feb 11, 2019

A Friend in the Dark

The process of guiding people to speak their truths was isolating.
Rumpus Original

torrin a. greathouse

Jan 29, 2019

The Constituent Parts

I was seven the first time I fired a gun.
Politics, Rumpus Original

Allie Marini

Mar 20, 2018

Moving Targets

Love twists itself into fear, into statistics, into things people can live with.
Politics, Rumpus Original

Tom McAllister

Feb 15, 2018

What to Do with My Body in the Event I Die in a Mass Shooting

Don’t join them in their prayers (the god they pray to doesn’t exist).
Rumpus Original

Alizah Salario

Dec 17, 2012

25 Years

I was a first grader at Hubbard Wood School in 1988 when a woman entered my school and shot six kids.