THE OUTCAST SPEAKS
(Written in June 1999, for my MFA Creative Writing class_
By David H. Lippman
The images were horrific enough, but it was the words that sent me into a flashback – frightened Colorado teenagers describing the assailants who had mowed down their schoolmates as “outcasts that nobody liked.â€
After that, television pundits and people with advanced degrees began to prattle about guns in schools, why high school kids turn to violence, and what is to be done.
I wished someone would ask one of the “outcasts.†I was one 20 years ago. In some ways, even though I lead what many people […]
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