Trauma, Drama, Love, and Loss

By Sarah Macdonald

Poetry can be healing. It can break the heart and heal it. Let it touch you and you’ll feel it. The scars here are real, but may it guide you through your own struggles, let you see that you’re not alone, show solidarity, and, at the end, provide you hope.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Austin Macauley Publishers
• Release date: Jun 23, 2023
• ISBN: 9781638294290

Sarah Macdonald

Sarah is a trans-woman who has served in the United States Marine Corps. She is a Dallas, Texas, native who served in several states in EMS from 2012-2022 as a dispatcher and dispatch associate supervisor. Sarah enjoys literature, movies, and writing both poetry and fiction.

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About the Author

Sarah is a trans-woman who has served in the United States Marine Corps. She is a Dallas, Texas, native who served in several states in EMS from 2012-2022 as a dispatcher and dispatch associate supervisor. Sarah enjoys literature, movies, and writing both poetry and fiction.

Dedication

For Claire who helped me through the first two years of my transition, and who saw me at my worst—thank you for supporting me, and picking me up so I could be my best.

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Sarah MacDonald 2023

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Any person who commits any unauthorized act in relation to this publication may be liable to criminal prosecution and civil claims for damages.

This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, businesses, places, events, locales, and incidents are either the products of the author’s imagination or used in a fictitious manner. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, or actual events is purely coincidental.

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Publisher’s Cataloging-in-Publication data

MacDonald, Sarah

Trauma, Drama, Love, and Loss

ISBN 9781638294276 (Paperback)

ISBN 9781638294283 (Hardback)

ISBN 9781638294290 (ePub e-book)

Library of Congress Control Number: 2023909151

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First Published 2023

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Acknowledgment

I’d like to acknowledge those who always believed in me; my Twitter friends; and of course my publisher, Austin Macauley.

Special acknowledgement to Mrs. Green who in the 7th grade fostered my love of the written word.

Trauma

I’m Not, but Just You Wait

I’m not a survivor

I’m a rape and murder victim

who hasn’t died yet.

Another statistic

Whose mother hasn’t cried yet.

A murder or suicide

that