Is There a Gun, It Has to Be Fired With This?

The events of this chapter were so vivid to me that it was very easy to write. This is the moment where sort of what i'd experienced before this, which had been primarily psychological and verbal and very cruel, slipped very suddenly into this light physical abuse. I feel like the whole paragraph of my brain responding to the way she's grabbing me. Feel like that was such a hard thing to describe. Well, you did that very difficult thing, i think, of helping the reader not turn away in horror, but to lean in to the story of something deeply disturbing. And that alone is,. i think, a huge challenge to be beckoning, even when what you're demonstrating is something