Samsstory Stories

My name is Samantha Wood and I'm only 14 years old. I have brown hair and brown eyes. I'm only 5"2' and 89 pounds. I'm pretty small for my age people alway say I need to eat more. But I don't. The reality I live in... It's a never ending night mare I live in fear of my da. My mum is out of the picture. I want an escape. I don't want to take his beatings anymore. You may think it's easy to leave since he hates me so much but it's harder then it seems. He only takes care of me for the benefits he gets. And without them he would have no money for weed an beer. I don't know If I will ever get out of this night mare alive...

Becoming a woman in the eyes of your family has always held it's struggles. Particularly so, during the turn of the century in the year 595BCE. Jerusalem is wroth with wickedness, and one man's desire to see his five daughters married to good and righteous men, has proved to be quite the challenge. Mara is the fourth of her father's daughters, and dreams of the day that they will deem her worthy of the title woman. She has figured that the quickest way to that, would be to get married, and strives to prove her value as the subservient woman that her society deems perfect. An answer to a desperate prayer, brings not just Mara, but her entire family far away from their home, and into a world that challenges Mara and everything she has ever believed. Mara finds herself faced with the choice of becoming the person that she has always wanted to be, or becoming the person that God has intended for her to be.