Beautiful in an Ugly World

"She is beautiful in an ugly world, and she must be punished for that."A lonely woman finds the perfect man but holds knowledge that will drive him away. A child hides in fear of their father, despite assurances from their mother. A businesswoman's neat, tidy life is swept away in a blur of violation. Alone in the moonlight, a housewife makes a fateful decision. A man loses more than he expects when he donates an organ to save his brother's life. A gay man with a terrible secret meets an old man with secrets of his own. An out-of-body experience reveals a terrible crime.Abuse, in all its myriad forms, has ripples in the lives of everyone it touches, from abusers to victims to survivors. These are stories of those ripples and how they affect us, even people who weren't abusers or victims.This is reality in fictional form. This is everything the world is that we don't want it to be.This is Beautiful in an Ugly World.