Note from the author: If you hover over the page, you’ll see the option to click through to the next part of the story. Some of these stories, I’ve written years ago, and because my writing has improved so much since they were first written, I plan to return to these stories and edit them to improve the story as […]
Tag: abuse
The people with the most power to hurt us are the people we care about. That’s scary, isn’t it? That isn’t to say that people we don’t care about – or don’t know – are not able to hurt us. It’s sometimes aggravating to endure a stranger’s hateful comment on social media, and it’s unsettling to be confronted by threats […]
I couldn’t sleep. I was rubbing my boyfriend’s back before bed – a regular occurrence in our nightly routine – when suddenly, I was consumed by anxiety. Abruptly, I was anticipating for him to turn around and say something cruel; something that would cut deep into my heart- or reveal to me unhinged anger that he had been keeping a […]
