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The text frames survival amid confinement and isolation, using metaphors of darkness, hidden light, and constrained time, while reflecting on how public headlines shaped judgment before any court hearing. It positions the story as a complex account of women’s blood and laws written by men, linking personal trauma to broader social consequences.","ONLY GIRLS BLEED  \nElaine Lawless  \nThe Book Social, 51 Gower Street, London, WC1E 6HJ [info@legendtimesgroup.co.uk | www.thebooksocial.co.uk](info@legendtimesgroup.co.uk | www.thebooksocial.co.uk)[ ](info@legendtimesgroup.co.uk | www.thebooksocial.co.uk)Contents © Elaine Lawless 2026  \nThe right of the above author to be identified as the author of this work has been asserted in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988. British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data available.  \nPrint ISBN 978-1-91505-400-5 Ebook ISBN 978-1-91505-401-2 Set in Times.  \nCover design by Ditte Løkkegaard  \nAll characters, other than those clearly in the public domain, and place names, other than those wellestablished such as towns and cities, are fictitious and any resemblance is purely coincidental. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in or introduced into a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form, or by any means electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without the prior permission of the publisher. Any person who commits any unauthorised act in relation to this publication may be liable to criminal prosecution and civil claims for damages.  \nDr. Elaine Lawless has devoted her career to ethnographic research in the fields of folklore, religion, and women’s and gender studies. She is the author of ten academic books and numerous articles. Her work has included studies of Pentecostalism; women’s literature; human rights, social justice and violence against women . She has also co-produced two documentary films: Joy Unspeakable and Taking Pinhook. In 2003, she co-founded and produced the Troubling Violence Performance Project, with Professor Heather Carver of the University of Missouri Theatre Department.  \nFor more information, see her website: [elainelawless.com](elainelawless.com)  \nFor all the girls, everywhere—  \nPrologue  \nAt night, when I dare, I sneak my notebook and pen out from under the mattress and wait until the guards go back through the double doors for the last time. In the uneasy quiet, I breathe in the darkness that settles on the cavernous room where I live with seventy-five other caged women . When the shuffling and whimpers cease, I slide off the bottom bunk and sit crosslegged, wedged into the corner, my giant sweatshirt pulled over my arms and legs, the hood over my head—invisible. My nifty plastic pen is poised above the paper, a tiny circle of light at the end waiting for me to write what happened to Molly and me . When that doesn’t happen, I decide to start where I am, but my pen still doesn’t move .  \nTurns out, it’s not that easy. You ever try to write in the dark? It’s like those games where you have to draw something with your eyes closed. At night in this crumbling pile of bricks, far from any place I’ve ever known, there is no light when the moon hides its face and the windows high on the concrete walls disappear. I try to conserve the little light in my pen, but I’m never sure I’m writing in straight lines, or if my words are crossing over each other.  \nI know there’s a chance if I’m caught writing after lights out, I’ll be punished. Like Brer Rabbit, they’ll take away the only joy I have in this place—dusting books in the prison library and reading a few pages when I  \ncan . For years, I could never find time to read, with Wilson gone and me raising Molly by myself, all the shit that happened, and then us on the run . Now, I finger books like they are magic, like they have answers, like maybe they can teach me how to live, or how to die.  \nThe irony of that song,“You’ve Got Time”from the TV series, Orange is the New Black, is not lost on me, or anyone else in here, for that matter. We“got time” and now we have too much time to think about our story. Funny thing—when you’re living your life, it’s not a story, like that joke about why fish don’t feel wet. 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