I Said No

To the Boy With the Thumbs

Alice C. Minium

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Image Courtesy of Meaghan Garvey/Noisey/Vice

Content Warning: Sexual Assault

It was a misty, warm night on Cary Street at an abandoned bar as I lingered in the back. As the wind turned the water white, to black. You showed up late, and dropped your phone.

You dropped your phone in an angry puddle. Its screenface looked at us like a scrying glass, foretelling sins and judging harshly, I begged…

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Alice C. Minium

Richmond-based writer, investigative researcher, and police abolitionist. Contact me at alice@openoversightva.org.