All the Dangerous Things

by Stacy Willingham

But that’s the thing about grief: There is no manual for it. There is no checklist outlining the optimal way to move through it and move on.

After all, the violence always comes to us in ways we could never expect: quickly, quietly. Masked as something else. Ben has always known that you don’t have to pull the trigger to get away with murder—sometimes, all you need to do is load the gun and let it go off on its own.