In this article, the author relates her experiences as creative writing teacher and her views as a teacher in the aftermath of Virginia Tech shooting. As a teacher who had taught writing and literature for twenty years, the author had received a great deal of submissions from her students about serial killers, rapists, slashers, and murderers and several scary messages from one of her students. The shooting at Virginia Tech has reminded her that what teachers teach and how they teach is bound to provoke some kind of emotional response in their students. As such, teachers like her should pay closer attention to the emotions evoked by the material they teach, by the classroom dynamics, and by the work their students produce.