Esme Waters
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Last published Sat, Sep 16, 2017
A young woman, scared of doing wrong in her life and being judged for it, settled for her easiest option - working in a local cafe, barely coping on her stingy minimum wage and putting up with a boss she hates with such raw emotion she can taste the hatred in her mouth every time she sees him.
But when everyone around her starts to move on and she's still stuck in the same, dull place in her life... she realises that something needs to change. She has no flatmate which means she can barely afford her rent, and her best friends have just betrayed her. How can she move on from the horror of her life?
Read on and find out.
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