Big brother had done it this time he had "accidentally" murdered our neighbour's son.The family had come to ask for compensation. Father tried to offer them his cows, his goats, sheep or money but they refused and said they wanted their son back. Father told them there was no way he could be resurrected and they answered and said "give us your daughter and she will give birth to our son."There was nothing father could so he gave me up to be their compensation. I had to leave my school life and become a 'wife'.A man as old as my father raped me every night and during the day I was treated worse than a slave was this my destiny, was this my fate on this earth.My name means rich, happy and prosperous if riches were gold and silver then I had my shoes and dress only this means I was poor. If prosperity was excelling in one's education then I stopped going to school to become a baby making machine. If happiness were days filled with laughter and smiles. Then I knew only thunderstorm days filled with insults and frowns. I Edith meaning rich, happy, prosperous was poor, sorrowful and uneducated
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Silent Cries
Short Story"I am my own person a human being.I deserve to be loved and respected to be treated well and listened too.My voice must be heard, I must not be discriminated and abused because of my sex." These are the words silently whispered by four different wo...
