Because it needed to be told.

Most of the reader feedback from my novella, I Wish I Would've, is positive.  Readers enjoy the stories many "wicked twists".  But, there are times that my feedback is not what an author wants to hear.  To those that ask why I wrote such a graphic and traumatic story, I say this, "Because it needed to be told."
I Wish I Would've is a story of betrayal.  It goes into a dark world that no one wants to believe exists.  It discusses issues people want to believe just don't happen.  People want to sweep this issue under the rug or ignore it.  They don't believe it can happen in their neighborhood or even worse in their family.  The issues I am speaking of are child abuse, sexual abuse and human trafficking.  (Let me burst your bubble by telling you that the United States has the highest number of children being trafficked.  Not children from other countries.  These children are from the US. These are our children and if we continue to ignore missing child reports/ads, we are not helping the voiceless victims.  I digress, kind of.)
Ignoring the issues in I Wish I Would've will not make them go away.  It will only keep you from being able to help someone who may want to reach out to you.  There are millions of children who are (have been) victims of sexual abuse.  They don't know who to turn to when their mom turns her back.  Who can they trust when their uncle is the one abusing them?  (Men are not the only perpetrators of sexual abuse and human trafficking.)
I wrote I Wish I Would've the way I did because I want the cycle to stop.  I want my reader to "see" what a victim of these acts/crimes may be living with.  I am fed up with reading stories of children being violated.  Again, I say to those who can't handle I Wish I Would've 's content, "I wrote it because it needed to be told and I will continue to write stories tough stories even if it makes you a little uncomfortable." 
Peace.