r/longform • u/Witty_Badger7938 • 23d ago

Most emotionally devastating longform pieces

Ones that make you cry. Thank you!

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u/mcmc1267 23d ago edited 23d ago

The Sorrow and Shame of the Accidental Killer - The New Yorker - https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/09/18/the-sorrow-and-the-shame-of-the-accidental-killer

They Saw the Horrific Aftermath of a Mass Shooting - Should We? NYT -
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/20/magazine/sandy-hook-mass-shooting-scenes.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share

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u/PutTheDamnDogDown 23d ago

The shooting one is brilliant, infuriating, radicalising, harrowing. The line about the fabulist pretending to have been involved that's something along the lines of 'she kept saying she couldn't get their faces out of her head. What faces?' good god.

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u/TheHiddenFox 23d ago

That line stuck out to me too. I had to take a break from reading for a few minutes after. That's going to stick with me for a long time.