Uncanny timing re. the publication of Creatures in current New Yorker

If I remember correctly Marisa Silver was one of the writers that the New Yorker "discovered" back int he day when they focused at least one issue a year on debut fiction - she was then writing about troubled people on the fringe of the entertainment industry in LA and she continues to write good short fiction as her field of vision has widened. Her story in the current NYer, Creatures, is an excellent piece - very well paced and plotted, characters sketched in very economically, like many stories focuses on a brief period of time in the "present" but raws on the characters' memories and back stories to give the short piece a near-novelistic sense of depth. In brief: storyis about a professional couple recently relocated to a wealthy suburb (she's a doctor he's a furniture maker who's sold his designs to a Starbucks-like company and made a fortune, presumably without a college education) and their preschool child. The child's preschool teacher calls them in for a conference because the son has been aggressive in school, pretend-shooting with a stick, scaring other kids. The parents don't entire see eye-to-eye on the matter, the dad making light of the issue to a degree and avoiding serious discussion with the child; the mom taking the issue more to heart - very typical of many families, it would seem. Then we learn something about why the dad pushes this issue aside: he was involved in some terrible incident as a child (he recalls telling his now-wife about this on one of their first dates, before they could get "serious," and she accepted him even after his confession - we learn later in the story that the shame of this incident caused him to be a loner throughout high school - thinking no girl would want anything to do with him). So what was the incident? Silver deftly weaves it through the present-day narration; I won't give anything away because there is a big surprise at the end, but we do see that it had to do with the dad's relation with a younger neighbor when they were preteens and a deer-hunting excursion with the neighbor's dad. The timing of the appearance of this story in the NYer is weird and uncanny, as the whole nation sits stunned through the pre-holiday weekend trying to make sense of the school shootings in Connecticut, when in fact they make no sense (though why it is still legal to buy semi-automatic weapons is beyond comprehension and shameful). Silver's story is a great examination of the consequences of violence - and it's eerie to think how the dad in this story, so easily, could have taken an entirely different course in life, and that maybe his darker side, for some inexplicable reason, is being enacted or, literally, "played out" through his son.