Someone Has To Pay
5 min readMar 20, 2019
The words stopped me in my tracks.
I’d been hired to write a grant proposal. It seemed like a good match, too: a not-for-profit agency that does work with homicide victims’ families in an inner-city locale, and a partnership grant between the federal Office of Victims of Crime and the Maryland Crime Victims’ Resource Center to provide direct services to homicide survivors and victims’ families.