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"The result is an important and horrifyingly thick anthology of mass murders...Highly difficult to read in one sitting, but we must not look away." - Kirkus Reviews A harrowing collection of sixty narratives - covering over fifty years of shootings in America - written by those most directly affected by school shootings: the survivors. "If I Don't Make It, I Love You," a text sent from inside a war zone. A text meant for Stacy Crescitelli, whose 15-year-old daughter, Sarah, was hiding in a closet fearing for her life in Parkland, Florida, in February of 2018, while a gunman sprayed her school with bullets, killing her friends, teachers, and coaches. This scene has become too familiar. We see the images, the children with trauma on their faces leaving their school in ropes, connected to one another with hands on shoulders, shaking, crying, and screaming.
About the Author
Amye Archer writes, mothers, and teaches in Northeast, PA. She has an MFA in Creative Writing from Wilkes University, a very handsome cat, and a Sam's Club membership. Her memoir, Fat Girl, Skinny was named a runner up for the Red Hen Press Nonfiction Manuscript Award, and has been published by Big Table Publishing. Amye's full-length poetry collection, Bangs, was released in 2014. She has also published two chapbooks: A Shotgun Life and No One Ever Looks Up. Amye's work has appeared in Brevity, Nailed Magazine, PMS: Poem Memoir Story, PANK, and her ex-boyfriend's garbage can. She is the creator of The Fat Girl Blog. You can read more about her at www.amyearcher.com.
Follow her on Twitter @amyearcher.
