Nasty Little Cuts by Tina Baker

Author:Tina Baker [Baker, Tina]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Profile
Published: 2022-02-23T16:00:00+00:00

The medical report lists contusions and abrasions around the wrists and neck, a dislocated shoulder, which still aches deep under the scapula when it’s cold. The head wound appears superficial – sixteen tiny stitches – but the concussion is more severe. Blurred vision for several days.

The rectum is damaged. Torn. Bright red bloodstains decorate your pants.

You’re prescribed senna, advised to eat prunes to allow the loose passage of stools during the healing process. You are warned of future prolapse. Given a leaflet on safe sex and HIV. Naturally, you don’t formally report any of it.

Bruises fade. Another blooms internally.

Perhaps, secretly, in the next weeks and months, you might wonder, a childish, irrational thought, swiftly dismissed, if it was because of your father. Although no one here could know that.

This wound is not addressed.

It is never addressed.

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