Jennifer Marie Donahue’s writing has appeared in So to Speak!, Pangyrus, Nailed Magazine, Necessary Fiction, and elsewhere. A native of Virginia, she currently lives in Massachusetts where she is hard at work on a novel-in-stories and a collection of essays focused on trauma and inheritance.
The self was attacking the self. My body was blaming itself: it didn't matter how many times I said or anyone else said, “It isn't your fault.” I believed it was.