Social Issues Fiction

Survivor Issues–Issue 3: A Poem for the Silent is a stream-of-consciousness poetic reflection that gives voice to the emotional reality of surviving trauma, abuse, and silence. Spoken in a raw, improvisational flow, this piece moves through themes of domestic violence, sexual assault, fear, faith, resilience, and the long road toward healing. It captures the internal dialogue of someone processing pain while still searching for strength, truth, and survival.

It is 1981. As a wave of puzzling medical cases sweeps across the US, a Parisian doctor is presented with a rare case of a disease long thought to be eradicated. It marks the beginning of a race on both sides of the Atlantic to make sense of a deadly virus that will define a generation. Miles...