A Butcher’s Dozen

Huntington, West Virginia. Perrysburg, Ohio. La Grange, Kentucky.

Of the fifteen page views Aveon Air has had so far today, a dozen are from the nether.

What on earth are you mining for? What sort of “gotcha” moment do you think is hidden in these words? How many times can one family obsessively refresh a bookmarked webpage?

Get out your pickaxes and your shovels and your torches. Chip away at it all; parse every sentence. Whine and bitch and moan. It won’t change the truth.

I will keep writing, keep sharing, and keep working toward being the last. You can keep hitting refresh. We are not, and never have been, the same.

This is the reality of escaping not only an abuser, but an abuser’s network of enablers. If you have the audacity to survive your murder, you’ll be hunted until the day you actually die.