Tragic Irony or Poetic Justice?

[Deborah Jovan Reed]

After the last onslaught in an elementary school hundreds of miles away, whose name was unknown even to those who drove past it on the highway, I decided we would home-school. Jericho hated it but Lily loved getting to stay home longer with mommy. What makes them feel they have to bring someone along for the ride? I woke from a coma after several days. It was a distant neighbor who knew we'd be there. In my husband's eyes I'm the villain because I kept them at home.

[Deborah Jovan Reed]

Thanks Joey & Angela.

[Angela]

Nothing is safe and it never was.  Good six.

[Joey Delgado]

The agree with you. Why must they take people with em. Why can't they just die alone?

[Deborah Jovan Reed]

Well Sandy Hook is recent but I was also thinking of all the other shooting during the course of history. Whether killing or injuries, when they are done they kill themselves so they don't have to suffer. I actually knew a woman who was so jolly and sweet and she killed her children and teen sons girlfriend. Then got his other kid from sleepover, killed him then herself.

[Joey Delgado]

This is an eerie piece. I believe you are writing about Sandy Hook and that story just scares the hell out of me and breaks my heart. I remember when I participated for an On Campus Shooting training exercise for a local police department and although everything was fake, the pops of the guns and the yelling and the chaos is the stuff of nightmares. But not really, is it? It's the stuff of reality.