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    CultureFamilyHealthNonfictionPoliticsRelationships
    By Joanne Curtain
    October 25, 2021
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    What Choice?

    **The following contains details of family violence and may be triggering for some readers** Where to begin? I have reflected long about how I, a feminist, a former family violence case manager, address the prevalent issue of violence against women in Australia. What I refer to as gendered violence. I will begin at the beginning. ...
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  • Didn't Listen
    EnvironmentFamilyFictionHealthHorrorLifestyleMemoriesMysteryRelationshipsRomance
    By Sarah Dowell
    October 18, 2021
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    But I Never Listened (Part Four)

    Part One Part Two Part Three Content Warning/Trigger Warning: Domestic Abuse- If you are in immediate danger, call 9-1-1. For anonymous, confidential help, 24/7​, please call the National Domestic Violence Hotline at 1-800-799-7233 (SAFE). When she was willing to overlook the rumors about me, I thought she might be the one. I kept her at an arm’s ...
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    CultureFamilyFictionHealthPoetryRelationships
    By Joanne Curtain
    September 27, 2021
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    The Other Pandemic

    We need to talk about the other pandemic, the one that lurks in the shadows, and in every silence. There’s no use pretending it doesn’t exist, another woman is assaulted, another woman is missing, another woman is murdered. Their lives dissected, interrogated, autopsied. You don’t get it, no accountability, no justice, violence continues in every ...
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  • But I Never Listened Part Three
    EnvironmentFamilyFictionHealthHorrorLifestyleMediaMysteryRelationshipsRomance
    By Sarah Dowell
    August 9, 2021
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    But I Never Listened (Part Three)

    Part One Part Two Content Warning/Trigger Warning: Domestic Abuse- If you are in immediate danger, call 9-1-1. For anonymous, confidential help, 24/7​, please call the National Domestic Violence Hotline at 1-800-799-7233 (SAFE). After she ran away, the rumors flew around him. I didn’t listen to any of them; it would be silly. Rumors are nothing but that, ...
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  • But I Never Listened
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    By Sarah Dowell
    July 26, 2021
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    But I Never Listened (Part Two)

    Content Warning/Trigger Warning: Domestic Abuse- If you are in immediate danger, call 9-1-1. For anonymous, confidential help, 24/7​, please call the National Domestic Violence Hotline at 1-800-799-7233 (SAFE). Part One I don’t understand why she couldn’t listen. When I told her I loved her, she didn’t pay attention. She said she wanted to leave me. How could ...
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  • The Woods
    EnvironmentFamilyFictionHealthHorrorLifestyleMemoriesMysteryRelationshipsRomance
    By Sarah Dowell
    July 12, 2021
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    But I Never Listened (Part One)

    Content Warning/Trigger Warning: Domestic Abuse- If you are in immediate danger, call 9-1-1. For anonymous, confidential help, 24/7​, please call the National Domestic Violence Hotline at 1-800-799-7233 (SAFE). When I was younger, you told me I could do anything. I didn’t listen. I didn’t feel like I was capable of believing that. There was no way I ...
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  • Domestic Abuse
    CultureEnvironmentHealthHomeNonfictionRelationships
    By Sarah Dowell
    March 8, 2021
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    Women Can Be Abusive Too

    Content Warning: This piece refers to domestic abuse and violence. For anonymous, confidential help, 24/7, please call the National Domestic Violence Hotline at 1-800-799-7233 (SAFE) or  1-800-787-3224 (TTY). The storm is over. It took so long, and you’ve been through more than anyone should have to. You were hit, berated, mentally tortured. You’re expected to “man ...
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    By LC Ahl
    January 4, 2021
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    Beyond The Grave – Two

    Beyond the Grave – One Naomi put on an air of annoyance after hanging up the phone. Though secretly delighted her boss had asked her to work a double at the Main Street Café, she knew her husband Cliff wouldn’t be pleased.  “That was Carl. Said Sara called in, and he needs me to work ...
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  • EnvironmentFamilyHealthLifestyleMemoriesNonfictionRelationships
    By Jessica Kay
    November 17, 2020
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    It Took Me 10 Years…

    Trigger Warning- Domestic Violence   It took me 10 years to fully get over you. Every blood-curdling scream from my throat over 3 years was a testament to the manipulation that you had subdued me to. It was 3 years of walking on eggshells and uneasiness and a semi-permanent lump in my throat and knot ...
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  • grass, clouds, walking
    CreativityEnvironmentHealthHomeMemoriesPoetryRelationships
    By Xander S. Lee
    June 15, 2020
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    Survivor’s Pledge – A Free-Verse Poem

    darlings, remember, the dark shapes hiding in the night friendly enemies fornicating your good nature they peek out from under your bed, creep beneath your pillow, stalk the lonely roads of your dreams and breathe new life as figures that haunt your waking world his breath may linger hot on your skin burnt like a ...
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