Genevieve Abravanel
Genevieve Abravanel’s short fiction is available or forthcoming in the Missouri Review, American Short Fiction, North American Review, the Normal School, Indiana Review, Southeast Review, and elsewhere. She has received grants and fellowships from the American Association for University Women (AAUW) and the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) and is currently working on a novel.
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How to Keep It Fresh
When writing about DV (for short), avoid bruises and the caked-on makeup that covers bruises. Avoid knocked-out teeth and the tang of blood inside the mouth. Especially avoid the heterosexual matrix, where a cis man hits a cis woman. To be safe, avoid hitting. Hitting’s been done. Pushing isn’t much better. Neither is dangling or […]