Editing Columbine High School massacre (section)

===Writings===
Shortly after the court hearing for the van break-in, Harris reverted his website back to just hosting user-created levels of ''Doom''. He began to write his thoughts down in a journal. Klebold had already been keeping a personal journal since March 1997; that November, Klebold had mentioned going on a killing spree. Klebold used his journal to vent about his personal problems as well as what he would wear and use during the attack.<ref name=Block/> In both their journals, Harris and Klebold later plotted the attack. Soon after beginning his journal, Harris typed out a plan for an attack which included possibly escaping to a foreign country after the massacre, or [[aircraft hijacking|hijacking an aircraft]] at [[Denver International Airport]] and crashing it into [[New York City]].<ref name=":4"/>

Klebold and Harris both made entries in their journals on topics related to [[sexuality]]. Klebold expressed shame for his sexual interests, which included [[Bondage (BDSM)|bondage]] and [[foot fetishism]], stating that, "My humanity has a foot fetish, & bondage exteme (sic) liking. I try to thwart it..."<ref>{{Cite web |title=Dylan Klebold journal entry, 1st January 1999|url=https://schoolshooters.info/sites/default/files/klebold_journal_1.2.pdf |website=schoolshooters.info |archive-url=https://archive.today/20240209001210/https://schoolshooters.info/sites/default/files/klebold_journal_1.2.pdf |archive-date=9 February 2024|url-status=live}}</ref> Harris described his desire for sex with women, especially his desire of [[Rape in the United States|raping]] and [[torture|torturing]] women in his bedroom.{{sfn|Larkin|2007|p=136}} Harris also expressed interest in [[Human cannibalism|cannibalism]], stating that he would like to dismember a woman with whom he could have "animalistic sex" and eat her flesh.{{sfn|Larkin|2007|pp=135-136}}

Harris and Klebold's schoolwork also foreshadowed the massacre.{{efn|Harris wished for "a lot of [[foreshadowing]] and [[Irony|dramatic irony]]" to be involved in the massacre plot.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.arkansasonline.com/news/2021/may/09/bullets-and-bad-seeds/ |title=OPINION &#124; PHILIP MARTIN: Bullets and bad seeds |date=May 9, 2021 |website=Arkansas Online}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=https://extras.denverpost.com/news/shot1215c.htm |title=The Denver Post Online - News |website=extras.denverpost.com}}</ref>}} They both displayed themes of violence in their [[creative writing]] projects. In December 1997, Harris wrote a paper on school shootings titled "Guns in School",<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.columbine-guide.com/columbine-harris-school-shooters |title=Eric Harris Essay on School Shooters |website=The Columbine Guide}}</ref><ref>{{Harvnb|Kass|2009|p=138}}</ref> and a poem from the perspective of a bullet.<ref name=tape2651>Basement Tapes, March 15, 1999</ref> Klebold wrote a short story about a man killing students which worried his teacher so much that she alerted his parents.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://schoolshooters.info/sites/default/files/klebold_short_story.pdf|title=A Short Story by Dylan Klebold}}</ref><ref>{{Harvnb|Klebold|2016|p=224}}</ref>

Both had researched war and murder. For one project, Harris wrote a paper on [[Nazi Germany]] and Klebold wrote a paper on [[Charles Manson]].<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.columbine-guide.com/columbine-eric-harris-nazi-essay |title=Eric Harris Nazis essay |website=The Columbine Guide}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.acolumbinesite.com/dylan/manson.php |title=Dylan Klebold's Creative Writing – Charles Manson Report |last=Shepard |first=C |website=acolumbinesite.com}}</ref><ref name=ideo>{{cite web |url=https://schoolshooters.info/sites/default/files/harris_influences_ideology_1.3.pdf |title=Influences on the Ideology of Eric Harris |last=Langman |first=Peter}}</ref> In a [[psychology]] class, Harris wrote that he dreamed of going on a [[Spree killer|shooting spree]] with Klebold.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1999/04/25/to-killers-model-school-was-cruel/46cf1fd6-74e2-478e-a387-f967cd7594e6/ |title=To Killers, Model School Was Cruel |newspaper=[[The Washington Post]] |date=April 25, 1999}}</ref> Harris's journals described several experimental bomb detonations.<ref name="Block"/><ref>{{Harvnb|Cullen|2009|pp=33–34, 183–185, 275–277, 371–380}}</ref>

Nearly a year before the massacre, Klebold wrote a message in Harris's 1998 yearbook: "killing enemies, blowing up stuff, killing cops!! My wrath for January's incident will be godlike. Not to mention our revenge in the commons"; "the commons" was slang for the school cafeteria.<ref name=suspdk/>