Timothy Sexton:  

It all begins with a text: "Active shooter NO drill Student? dk-pr. LUV-u pray4me Louder now." Another day. Another school shooting in America. Triggered is the story of a school shooting told through metaphor. Rather than presenting a perspective of the continuing madness of this uniquely American epidemic through a straightforward narrative looking to explain why a shooter exists, the story presents this insanity through the prism of child abuse that is explicitly or implicitly allowed to go on without serious address of the problem. Feather Fairfax is a high school senior sitting at home and watching the story unfold as we all do: on the television. Too sick to attend school that awful day, she is nevertheless integral to story as we go inside her memories to visit the most likely possible suspects. At the same time, the narrative tracks her personal life. The two threads combine to assert that, ultimately, Feather is the hero we have been waiting for even though she never does actually attend school on this horrific day. Replicating the feeling of time not working right when you ar...Expand for more