Aug 20, 2020 | Illianna Martinez, Memoir, Nightingale, Nonfiction, Uncategorized
The strength and earnestness with which Martinez describes her incomplete memories serve to prove that strong feelings are just as powerful as concrete details. Feelings are true, they leave lasting effects on one’s life, and this alone makes them important. Yet...Aug 6, 2020 | Essay, Meggie Royer, Nightingale, Uncategorized
In an ongoing emotional waterfall, Meggie Royer responds to sexual violence with a stream of consciousness. She drops us into the days after surviving intimate partner sexual violence and introduces us to the endless and overwhelming list of small things that need to...Aug 6, 2020 | Fiction, Nightingale, Rebecca Nestor
Rebecca Nestor pulls us gently through dreams and reality, childhood and adulthood. As she comes to terms with a momentous move away from where she grew up and where she suffered abuse as a child, childhood sexual violence evolves into adult healing and strength. With...Jul 23, 2020 | Callen Harty, Essay, Nightingale, Uncategorized
Harty asks the same question again and again, with a new answer each time. Why I didn’t report? “There are too many reasons.” Through writing that is open, gentle, and direct, Harty examines years of his own silence after experiencing childhood...Jun 25, 2020 | Memoir, Nightingale, Scott, Uncategorized
Trauma has left us between times and worlds. In a response to our May prompt, “Other Me’s Request” experiments with time as we follow “Me” and “Other me” through an experience of childhood sexual violence. The two versions of our protagonist represent the common...