Venator Publishing
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This is a one-hundred-and-ten mile an hour, unrelenting, brutally honest, no-holds-barred confrontation with sexual molestation and its lifelong, debilitating after effects. With closed fist, the hammer of psychosis hurtles down the centerline of the road in the mind, smashing through all the congealed memories that dwell within the sealed corridors of childhood. It is there where these women, whose lives early on had been eradicated of any and all innocence, are now attempting to survive as adults while living within the confines of traumatized existences. In 'In The Midst Of Savage Darkness', horrific memories are recounted as the women delve into their own, separate psyches, verbally peeling away the colluded layers of their lives as they attempt to relate their stories in therapy. During ensuing sessions, the reader is |
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taken back into the actual episodes of abuse as these shattered women reveal their experiences. In the retelling, one is exposed to all of the physical and psychological violations, and what is observed is how all of those scarred, attendant entrails emanated from their childhood, enveloped them, and made them into the fractured adults that they now are. Delving into the material from a singular point of view, 'Taking The Long Way Home' is one woman's odyssey, a journey that she perceives to be one of a long, solitary, disillusioned road to nowhere. Imbued with a finite desire to get away from a ruinous existence, she attempts, grasping at the last vestiges of her courage and integrity, to find an exit so that she may get back to the individual that she never was but always wanted to be. 'Mandatory Refusal' is written through the eyes of the abuser, thereby allowing us to leap off the precipice of normality into the mind of a predator. Following him from the early stages of childhood, up through and past distorted and divergent paths, we watch as he is propelled to become one who is the culmination and and ruination of the lives of others. In these three stories, the disillusionment of the soul, which is the prism through which these individuals see their lives, is used to strip away the inherent facades of those who hide behind their deceit while perpetuating all of the damage and abuse. In that vein, many of today's acceptable social mores are exposed, a head-on collision with the progenitors of moral responsibility: the parents, relatives, educators, psychologists, pedophile priests, and others of that ilk. Quotes from readers: "It's like being strapped to the front of a roller coaster on its way down to the depths of mankind's immorality". "Filled with the cold sweats, fear and betrayal of sacred trusts that permeate our society". "Evil, wicked, mean and nasty…the truth hurts!". "Political correctness gets bitch slapped back to the horrible reality of hypocrisy and the immorality of our role models".
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