Writings by Sandra Harrison including poetry, essays, fiction, non-fiction; children's literatire.

We are living in strange times
Like ones that Stephen King has created in his novels.
Where a woman can’t be in control of her own body or its care,
Where gun ownership is more important than the lives of people killed by guns.
And where pro-lifers are for the death penalty, and though they are anti-abortion they are against immigration.
They just don’t want people from certain places to have a good life.
Though of no fault of their own, they were born somewhere else that doesn’t allow them a life worth living.
They say how sorry they are when someone dies at the hands of the police, to someone killed by a mass shooter or even when a catastrophic event happens killing people.
But we don’t do anything to stop the madness, the killing, or the hate.
And we don’t even try to prevent these things from happening again.
By being prepared for such events and tragedies.