Under the Gun

Erin Ryan Burdette
11 min readAug 21, 2021

Do you believe angels exist in our everyday world or are we just trying to make ourselves feel better?

Photo by Max Kleinen on Unsplash

I’m not usually so literal, but the idiom “Under the Gun” calls forth a story from my personal arsenal. This event was over 30 years ago, but I think about it. I mean, I’m a writer. It’s packed with ingredients for delicious drama — a gun, a bad guy, some good guys, a fantastic soundtrack, and an essential question.

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Erin Ryan Burdette

Freelance writer of plays/short stories/poetry/narrative non-fiction; lover of humor, chocolate, pratfalls, my children (in no particular order..).