Anna argues with her mom about a school sci­ence award. Ben dis­cov­ers in his sev­enth decade that he is Jew­ish. Chester search­es for his lit­tle sis­ter in a snow­storm. Dix­ie is preg­nant with her sec­ond child. Their sto­ries and twen­ty-two oth­ers read like the ABC’s of every­day life. One way or anoth­er, the chal­lenges that bring dra­ma to our lives work them­selves out, right? Or maybe not. Some­times the end­ing isn’t at all what you expect. Shot is a col­lec­tion of short sto­ries about gun vio­lence, orga­nized as a dic­tio­nary, with a sto­ry for each let­ter of the alpha­bet. Each life is pre­cious. And life itself is to be celebrated.