taste the darkness by Linda M. Crate

you slit my throat,
drank my blood
from my own goblet

Yellow Prism by Ashley Bullen-Cutting

Dearest Harold Greene,

You will note the package that accompanies this correspondence odd and query why it is I have sent such to you, allow me to endeavour to elucidate upon its discovery, circumstance and point.

Louder than Words by G.E. Smith

I’d had enough of my husband’s verbal abuse. I began recording his comments, typing and printing them out, and shredding them.

Matricide by Ceinwen E. Cariad Haydon

(CN / TW: child abuse, verbal abuse, strong language, violence)

Slag. Again.
Again. Tonight,
because I walked home
barefoot, shoes in my hands,