In our evening's readings there were a few of them that were written very graphically.  It was perfectly ok and done in a way in which it made the reader have empathy for the victims.  I had only in the past had experience with those stories as myself as the reader.  It seemed to be so much more dramatic when it was read by the author.  The stories although with different characters and plots reminded me of the story the Color Purple.  In that play the audience is moved and influenced by the violence that is portrayed on especially one particular woman.  These stories are so necessary to be written and read, not every household and human is peaceful and through these writings a perpetrator may one day change his behavior.