Mary Lou Heater
New Writers Welcome
4 min readOct 31, 2021

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They renamed it Gunspoint

Ready, aim, shoot

Photo by Max Kleinen on Unsplash

Last night at 2:22 a.m. I awoke to the sound of a volley of six shots outside my window. I feared the stray bullet you hear about on the news that accidentally pierced through and hit the old woman who died at the scene. In her bed. Or worse, it got my dog who was sleeping next to me.

As part of our annual training, we have to take an active shooter course. In it, we learn to differentiate…

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Mary Lou Heater
New Writers Welcome

Doctor of Nursing Practice specializing in adult mental heath, aging and addictions. Writer, lover of words, and ideas.