ProtectHer

Tired of the abuse his mother endures, at the hands of her boyfriend, a boy at his "coming of age" gets a gun.

After learning to point and shoot he meets his nemesis face-to-face for the final showdown.

"Sixty-three percent of young men between the ages of 11 and 20 serving time for homicide are in prison for killing their mother's abuser." (SOURCE: KDVA.org, Myths of Domestic Violence: 2008)

**This novella is approximately 23,000 words.**