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I changed my mind, no one can read my new story...
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lirrin for hipping me to this story about a high school kid charged with a crime for, you guessed it, writing a story.
The assignment?
Write whatever comes to mind, don't censor yourself.
So the kid wrote a bloody little stabby story with some necrophilia thrown in.
Offensive and disturbing? Sure.
A crime that will go on this young man's permanent record? No fucking way.
Like most of you, I am horrified that these awful school shootings are being used as an excuse to arrest children because we're uncomfortable with what they're thinking/writing about. If anybody read my new story they'd haul my ass off, except that I'm not a high school kid and I'd be screaming bloody murder about it (pun intended). Stories do not make people die. Literature is powerful, but even Mein Kampf didn't harm anyone in and of itself.
Charging this kid with a crime is no way to help him, or anybody else. It will not "teach him a lesson" except perhaps that the cops are f'd up and the school won't back you even if you do exactly what you are told. If anything, it will make him exponentially more angry than he was when he wrote the damn thing.
So let's all chill the fuck out, get that kid some counseling and move on about the business of rooting out real crimes and perpetrators who are actually hurting people.
And now, I'm off to read that Richard Bachman book about the kid who takes the classroom hostage. Then I'll write more horror about the dumb guy who kills young girls because he's sad that they don't love him. It's chilling. Hope I don't get charged with you know...writing it.
lirrin for hipping me to this story about a high school kid charged with a crime for, you guessed it, writing a story.The assignment?
Write whatever comes to mind, don't censor yourself.
So the kid wrote a bloody little stabby story with some necrophilia thrown in.
Offensive and disturbing? Sure.
A crime that will go on this young man's permanent record? No fucking way.
Like most of you, I am horrified that these awful school shootings are being used as an excuse to arrest children because we're uncomfortable with what they're thinking/writing about. If anybody read my new story they'd haul my ass off, except that I'm not a high school kid and I'd be screaming bloody murder about it (pun intended). Stories do not make people die. Literature is powerful, but even Mein Kampf didn't harm anyone in and of itself.
Charging this kid with a crime is no way to help him, or anybody else. It will not "teach him a lesson" except perhaps that the cops are f'd up and the school won't back you even if you do exactly what you are told. If anything, it will make him exponentially more angry than he was when he wrote the damn thing.
So let's all chill the fuck out, get that kid some counseling and move on about the business of rooting out real crimes and perpetrators who are actually hurting people.
And now, I'm off to read that Richard Bachman book about the kid who takes the classroom hostage. Then I'll write more horror about the dumb guy who kills young girls because he's sad that they don't love him. It's chilling. Hope I don't get charged with you know...writing it.