South Side Summer

by McKennzie Boyd

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A young mother, her son and her daughter share their experience of living on the southside of Chicago, where guns don't discriminate based on how young or old you are but it’s the color of your skin that can change which way the gun faces.

It's Okay

by Anya Jiménez

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In an unknown dreamscape, seemingly without time, a grieving mother grapples with her reality following the mass shooting at her daughter’s elementary school.

Undo, Redo

by Cameron Thiesing

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No. Stop. Like this. Okay, do it again. Giving directions to her past self and her friend Rachel as if the director of a play, Caroline desperately tries to change the past as she is forced to come to terms with what really happened at school.

Allegiance

by Arianna Brumfield

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Growing up in a community where opportunities are scarce, Nehemiah feels burdened with the responsibility of rebuilding his fractured family. When tragedy rips a hole in his world, he must decide whether to fulfill that responsibility or seek revenge, and which life he was destined to live. 

Salted Lemonade

by Taylor Lafayette

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Worrying over your 18 year old son’s well being can sometimes feel like a full time job for Lisa, a widowed mother who lost her husband to gun violence. But when Jamal doesn’t text her, it may be that the day she’s feared ever since her husband died has finally arrived.

Write Their Wrongs

by Wyn Alyse Thomas

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After surviving a shooting in their high school, four writers get together to try to write a piece that will inspire change in the nation's gun legislation.

Rehearsal

by Willa Colleary

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Four students at an elite private school and their cult-of-personality history teacher must recount how and why they began the weekly ritual of obsessively performing an archetypal school shooting.

In My Sights

by Tain Leonard-Peck

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Told from the gun’s perspective, IN MY SIGHTS follows the ‘life’ of a gun, from its creation and adoption by a loving couple, to its theft and use in a shooting, exploring how even well-intentioned gun owners can find their weapons embroiled in violent crime.