Content Warnings: Abduction, youth & substance abuse, weapons, murder, death, neglect, abandonment. Do not read if you cannot handle any of these themes. You will know right away how this story ends, and you will try to change it. That voice in your head will clutter, and those voices will scream. And you will believe if it’s loud enough, you […]
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 […]
