Cynthia Harrison
Novelist
Tag: sexual assault
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The Clinton Affair
I watched this six-part series because I have always been fascinated by Monica Lewinsky. Horrified by what she went through, what our “justice” system put her through, what our President put her through, what the media did to her. It seemed like a nightmare life. Maybe I like nightmares or flame engulfed car crashes. I…
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Pieces of Me: Creating Lily White
In a racially divided city a black cop and a white PI team up to solve a double homicide. What they uncover leads them closer to the truth, and to each other. There were so many things I wanted to avoid when I started this book. I knew there would be violence and death. I…
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Sexual Assault
Maybe because of the Bill Cosby news lately, maybe because the fiction I’m writing deals, in part, with a rape and its aftermath, maybe because I’ve been sexually assaulted five times–whatever the reason, this is the post I never wanted to write. And yet, I have to tell this story. You wouldn’t know by the…