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Part One: A Creative Work of Non-fiction
A bathroom door. A carousel spinning in the dark. A purity ring that was supposed to keep her safe.
Part One is a raw and haunting work of creative nonfiction that confronts what happens when faith, shame, and desire collide. At sixteen, caught between purity culture promises and the reality of sexual assault, a girl learns how quickly innocence can be stolen and how silence can shape a life.
Told with unflinching honesty, Jessica Biles gives voice to the hidden violence of religious trauma, purity culture, and sexual shame.
For readers of memoir and feminist nonfiction, this short but powerful story will leave its mark long after the last page.
Part One is a raw and haunting work of creative nonfiction that confronts what happens when faith, shame, and desire collide. At sixteen, caught between purity culture promises and the reality of sexual assault, a girl learns how quickly innocence can be stolen and how silence can shape a life.
Told with unflinching honesty, Jessica Biles gives voice to the hidden violence of religious trauma, purity culture, and sexual shame.
For readers of memoir and feminist nonfiction, this short but powerful story will leave its mark long after the last page.
16 pages, Kindle Edition
Published August 27, 2025
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