Demolishing the Deadly Silence of Abuse

Fighting Forward

His hulking arm was fastened too tight around my hip, eyes shamelessly absorbing anything that happened on my phone’s screen. Always searching for the next imagined slight against him, when in reality he was the one who was regularly, and unapologetically, unfaithful.

Daniel Popper’s incredible artwork, “Transmission”, located near Joshua Tree National Park, CA. Photo by author: Veronica Wren