Everyone has the Right to Occupy Space, Safely.

I write this in hopes of helping others who have also been sexually assaulted. You are not alone.

This is a short story about a young girl who self harms by cutting herself in order to deal with past pain. This is her coping mechanism until something goes dreadfully wrong.

I wrote this for my class, it’s a found poem so I took the quotes from I know why the caged bird sings by maya angelou and rearranged them and stuff to come up with this poem… everyone thought it was amazing so ye hope you enjoy o.O.

There is no tale to tell.

The plight of a 61-year-old women, who suffered a brutal sexual assault 36 years ago and has been lying in a vegetative state in a Mumbai hospital ever since described through the medium of poetry.

In this segment, Investigative reporter, Doreen Houser, relates to her boss, Metro Editor, Lou how the night before, unseen, she had discovered the identity of the woman who sent the anonymous fax to the Chronicle revealing that members of the City council had taken huge bribes to approve the purchase of property for the new Houston Convention Center. A second fax arrives, alleging that the Mayor had accepted an even larger bribe. Nancy Herrick, a young, recent widow, had discovered documents jammed in the shredder that itemized the transactions in the handwriting of her employer, Randle Ted Gangley, the owner of the $217 million dollar property. In a twist of fate, her admiration for her employer of 11 years is turned to horror and hatred, not by the shredder discovery, but by something else far more personal to her. ..

How I became a survivor.

One in six women will be sexually assaulted at some point in her life. But I am more than a statistic. I am a survivor.

Remembering the night of a sexual assault.