Exhausted - A Short Story

Exhausted - A Short Story

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Exhausted is a story about someone who purposely separated themselves from the world and the consequences of it. This is a personal story for me, one that draws from personal experience.
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This is a fictional thriller, based on a mother, Ari, returning from Ireland to the UK with her toddler and the child abduction case afterwards. It explores the trapped marriages of the world, where systems, families, social opinion, and the consequences they put on the victim for leaving. It explains how the court systems can be used to try to control and punish someone, but in turn, how they can protect. The complications of courts between two countries' systems. The systems that help, refuge, counselling, and support. Ari has to fight her way through two court systems without spiralling. It shows the understanding and empathy from strangers, friends, family, and charities towards the main character. The positive relationships in the main characters' lives, how sometimes friends and family don't understand, however kindness and humour help. Also, mothers can be made to feel guilty at many different points for different reasons, even when it's over something that isn't the mothers fault. It also has subjects surrounding children diagnosed very early in life with disabilities, the challenges, and breakthroughs that some with it. Themes of stigma and of sympathy.

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