"My kids are the victims of this abuse"
My eight-year-old son has a nightmare where he finds my body in the park. How did I get to a point where I allowed my child to be exposed to such fear?.....Part of the 2008 "31" book project.
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"I started writing strictly to keep from sticking my head in the oven"
I moved to Iowa to get away from a guy who was stalking me, that I was trying to break up with. I packed up my stuff in the middle of the night and snuck out of Florida. I thought I had gone far enough away, by going to Iowa, that he couldn't find me. It took him two weeks to track me down...... Part of the 2008 "31" book project.
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"I was born with a hole in my heart"
It's kind of ironic. I was born with a hole in my heart.
In the last year, I realized that all the love God gave me before I was born leaked out of that hole.
My father was sexually abusive. I was four. My mom was also a victim, and that's why she couldn't look, and that's why she couldn't do anything to protect me... Part of the 2008 "31" book project.
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See all at the ICADV website
Read the short forms of all of the 31 stories of the Iowa Voices Project at the website of the Iowa Coalition Against Domestic Violence (ICADV). Click here for a shortcut to the stories.
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"31: Thirty-one stories of domestic violence survivors in America's Heartland"
Longer versions of the 31 stories of the Iowa Voices Project are being assembled in book form, with an added photo section for portraits and more. The book will released in October 2009 with national distribution by BluSky Media Group. Price: $14.95. Bulk orders available. ISBN 978-0-9776878-4-8. Stay tuned for ordering details. All profits from this book will go to ICADV.
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