Stories tagged “Child Abuse”
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Fear
I stood there and watched, marveling at my friend. Where I was calm and cool, he was viscous and vivacious. I would watch and follow as he wandered through the battlefield running and screaming. He was drawn to them, to the helpless. A man was pinned d...
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Another excerpt from a much longer work...um, abused kid scene.
I read my baby sister Lorelei stories out of a fairy tale book. I had a habit of repeating the same story over and over again, particularly after Brennan’s wife would come stomping down the hallway to yell at us. “And the giant said, ‘Fee Fie...
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Molestation
daddy left them when she was three always wondering “why he abandoned me” her mommy said “he wanted a son” blamed her for what her daddy done at eight years old, getting close to dark a fourteen year old playing in the park “Come over...
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Dr. Krauss
Dr. Krauss had promised me an end to the insomnia. The nightmares where my father would come to touch me while I sleep. The endless nights where I’d wake, drenched in cold sweat, my sheets wrapped round me, the tentacles of horrific memory. She p...