CW: reference to sexual assault
I saw his face when I least expected it, smiling at me from a corner-mounted television in a crowded café in Prague. “Do you know what this is about?” I asked the woman standing in line behind me as I pointed at the muted news program. She shrugged her shoulders dismissively. “Some actor is being accused of sexual assault by five women.” She had hardly finished her sentence when I started laughing uncontrollably, tears streaming down my face, the occasional sob escaping my lips. No one had heard my pleas that night, but six voices would scream louder than one.
Sally Wagner is a student, a writer, and a mother of two rabbits living in Luxembourg.