These are both visceral, unflinching pieces, one a poem, one a story.
"Sweet Mercy, Her Body an Ark of Wild Beasts" by Kelly Rose Pflug-Back in Ideomancer
and
"My Dignity in Scars" by Cory Skerry in Strange Horizons
"Sweet Mercy, Her Body an Ark of Wild Beasts" by Kelly Rose Pflug-Back in Ideomancer
and
"My Dignity in Scars" by Cory Skerry in Strange Horizons