Prevail, Inc.

KATE
Kate didn’t know what to do to make the scary touching stop. One night, Kate woke up and found her dad on the living room couch with a friend… hitting a crack pipe.  Kate’s Dad offered her a “smoke.”  Stunned, not knowing what to do, Kate sat down on the couch and tried crack for the first time... with her dad. 

EMMA & JENNA
Emma (age 11) and Jenna (age 8) were bright, sweet, and self-proclaimed comedians. Everyone who met them said that they had that undeniable bond of sisters.

Yet Emma kept a very deep dark secret. For the past three years, her father had been visiting her room at least once a week. At first, it was just to tuck her in and kiss her good night. Then it was to rub her back and tickle her. Then, it became much more. Emma could not tell. At first, she did not quite understand what was happening, but she was very scared of what would happen if she told.

SUZY
Blood was dripping down the tile of her bathroom floor into the grout she had worked so hard to clean. He always needed the house to be spotless. It took her a second before she realized the blood was hers. Still too scared to stand up, Suzie continued to lay there until she heard him leave through the garage. The mirror told her more than she could ever deny. He had broken her nose and knocked her unconscious.

JEANNETTE
Jeannette sat at her desk at work, staring distantly at the blinking cursor and trying not to close her eyes for fear of another flash-back. She had worked so hard to get to this point in her career where she could be counted on with responsibility. The project was due to her boss in two hours. She had not even started.  Her two little boys kept calling her. They needed help with homework. All she could think about was how disgusting she still felt from events that happened more than 30 years ago. “Why can’t I just get over it”, she thought.