Agnieszka Krajewska is a poet, essayist, and combat epistemologist. She received an MA in Creative Writing from San Francisco State University in 2004, and was
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I know a woman who knows what it means to be held down by ten boys and raped repeatedly, who didn’t tell anyone for twenty
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You lie still when he finishes. He doesn’t say anything at first. Just stills his hands and pulls back. He sits up. I’m sorry. I
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& suddenly yesterday I stopped being twenty. I am tired of being found alive. It was night a minute ago. I keep losing my head
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Thirty years later, the memories come roaring back, in burning waves, like a stomach flu. Memories come unbidden when I am on the subway, in
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Everything on campus looks the same, but I’m viewing it from underwater. I shake my head to clear my vision. All I see is a
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Cris is a survivor of early and long term sexual abuse. It’s a relief for Cris to be able to write this so plainly to
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the nice guy who comes into your home to clean your windows the friendly doctor who brings mushrooms from the woods the puffed priest who
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i will cleanse my body of unwanted fingerprints in a scalding shower. skin will split, melt, peel and water will run with the red, red,
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Ashley Sapp resides in Columbia, South Carolina, with her husband and furbaby. She earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in English from the University of
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It’s been a month, and this is how I eat: I wait until I am starving, my stomach rumbling with gurgling “feed me” noises, as
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i. Though he now occupies another coast some 3,000 miles away, I feel his shape because I feel my own, split from his, hot about
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