Next Time, Punch Me in the Face

The most brutal part of sexual violence is its invisibility

Hope Rising
The Virago
Published in
5 min readFeb 28, 2023

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Photo by Ian Keefe on Unsplash

I heard the man’s voice through my front door: over the not-so-Christian music; over the slamming of car doors; over the curse words; over the whistling of weary windshield wipers, I heard him.

“Please say hello to me.”

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Hope Rising
The Virago

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