Avocado by Sophie Trevitt

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Author Sophie Trevitt

Sophie is a legal aid lawyer and occasional writer. She has been published in a range of online publications and writes political opinion, short stories and performs the infrequent piece of spoken word. Sophie writes about the things she loves, hates and which cause discomfort - which in no particular order include gender, prisons, refugees and climate change. You can find her at her Blog: https://politicability.com/

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Avocado by Sophie Trevitt

I am eight. I am eight, and I am an avocado in a flock of magpies and I want to be a magpie so badly that it makes my fingers curl. I want to know what it feels...

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Discovering Electricity by Abby Cummings

I’d be lying if I said my interest in forensic psychology wasn’t partially fueled by a need to prove I no longer feared men like him, at least in the beginning,...

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What Insomnia Told Me by Märtha Custis

Fear silences our voices and daily we convince ourselves that life is fixable, that it gets better and becomes whole again. But the fact is that it doesn’t, at ...

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Seeing Red by Shannon Tsonis

It’s got to be near three in the morning and my head still stirs with all the alcohol I had helped myself to. The alcohol I didn’t buy but paid for. Dearly.

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#MeToo: The Child is Beautiful by Jade Gleason

TRIGGER WARNING: This #MeToo essay contains references to child sex trafficking and its effects on the writer. You will cry and, bit by bit, it will break your ...

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Before #MeToo by C. Flanagan Flynn

Soon enough it’s clear he’s hellbent on spreading the rumor he fucked you—or is it fact? You’re a 13-year-old freshman who drank a pint of Southern Comfort, bla...

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#MeToo: Birthday Cake by Tori Weston

My mom tells me that I can choose who can come to my party. I can choose who can have cake. Tomorrow when I turn thirteen I will tell her that he can’t come to ...

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#MeToo: I Never Said No by Mary Beth O’Connor

I felt terror but not complete surprise. For a long while, part of me had expected to die like this. I recollected the stories my great-grandmother read from th...

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#MeToo Award 2nd Prize Winner: Rise by Megan Baxter

he Julie B Valentine Center is located out on the edge of town near trucking depots and used car lots that cater exclusively to Spanish-speaking customers. The ...