You'll find my wife's (Lynda Schor's) take on the Columbine
kids, etc. in her story called "Collateral Damage" in her recent
FC2 collection The Body Parts Shop [Normal, IL/Tallahassee, FL:
FC2, 2005]. The story was also in a 2004 issue of Witness.
Hal "One would have to have a heart of stone not
to laugh at the death of Little Nell."
--Oscar Wilde
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On Sep 30, 2005, at 5:22 PM, Dominic Fox wrote:
>> I also want to write from inside the Columbine kids, Eric Harris and
>> Dylan Klebold
>>
>
> Were you in high school right now, expressing sympathy for Harris and
> Klebold would be a most impolitic act. I've read no end of accounts of
> high-schoolers saying "well, they were assholes, but I can kind of see
> where they were coming from" and getting into the most incredible
> amounts of shit for it.
>
> To me, it's scary to think that there are high-schoolers who *haven't*
> fantasized about wiping out most of their classmates - these are the
> ones who will say, when asked, "everyone at our school is really
> friendly, it's not bitchy or cliquey at all, there's a really good
> atmosphere and everyone gets on really well" when reporters come to
> ask them why they think two of their classmates might have formed a
> suicide pact after months of bullying.
>
> Dominic
>
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