Fiction originally published in Grey Sparrow Journal: Issue 16, Spring 2013

“The victim was physically and sexually assaulted” vs. these two guys shoved me to the ground behind the dumpster in the alley behind my complex, bashed my face into the wet pavement three or four times (besides the fractured cheek bone, I am now permanently blind in my left eye), then the two of them took turns playing lookout and forcing themselves inside of me so violently that I wasn’t able to sit down for the next ten days without feeling like I was being ripped in half again.