Silent Revenge (Rehana Ali)

read it on caferati ..

It is a powerful story, about triumph over fear. What keeps these women from complaining is fear of losing even more than they already have - fear of economic loss, fear of public scrutiny, fear of further abuse, fear for their families.

To overcome this debilitating fear, they had to do something pretty drastic. Something so extreme, it would erase it from their minds forever. That comes out well in the mutilation scene. They were not killing these men, they were attacking their own fears.

You were right not to detail the consequences were of these actions - were they further targeted, were they left alone, did they get arrested? The story ends at the right place - where these women began to emerge from fear.

I feel, it's still more of news reportage format, not a piece of writing. For a writer's forum, you could add your understanding of who these women are, why this happened, and why this is bigger than revenge, etc.

Aparna