[ WP ] Write a short story that contains `` Papa do n't shoot ! '' as a line of dialogue . Set us up for it , or make a twist . Get creative .

`` C'mon, Dad! Wo n't you come to the firing range just this once?'' 
 
 My father narrowed his eyes. `` Bea, we've been over this.'' 
 
 `` We just wan na spend time with you!'' 
 
 He puffed his chest up and prepared to run through the same old speech, the one we'd heard a thousand times before. `` Bea, I fought in Vietnam. I was a machine gunner. I musta fired six million rounds into the jungle in those three years. I saw things, awful things, that I'll never forget. I mowed down human beings like the cowboys mowed down buffalo.'' 
 
 His glare intensified. `` I fought in that war because I had no choice. But today? Nuh-uh! Papa do n't shoot!''
