Tips for Talking to Children About Violence
By Julia Kolchinsky Dasbach. How to talk to a child about unfathomable violence.
Journalism in Verse
Valentine’s, Another Day
By Ann E. Wallace. When will we be able to tell our children they're safe at school?
Stay Barricaded in Place [BREAKING]
By Larry Thacker. A script for the breaking news that a Florida high school shooting has left 17 dead on Valentine's Day.
At Marshall County High School
By Alejandro Escudé. A high school teacher and father sketches his plan for the unbearable: a school shooting.
Safe Havens
By Catherine Rockwood. "'I want to turn this in,' he said, setting down one crosshatched grenade..."
Everyone Is Terrified for Their Kids
By Julia Kolchinsky Dasbach. The banality of terror in an American home, after another school shooting.
Lost Souls
By Megan Merchant. The nation, numbed by mass shootings, barely flinches about this week's gunfire at a Kentucky high school.
Forewarned on January 13, 2018
By Sharon Mishler Fox. Perhaps, how a famous poet would react to a missile strike in Hawaii.
