How It Went

We don't choose which direction we grow in- some of us grow into the poisonous hands of satan's spawn or find ourselves trapped beneath the bubbling surface of a curse.

What happens when your life, love, family, friends and faith are on the line?

Finding love is difficult; finding love as a Muslimah in a corrupted world is drastically challenging and on occasion, it comes at the price of ourselves. Maira struggles with an endless game of roulette against herself from forgotten birthdays to missing persons. There's a price paid for every player.

How she pays for it? Well that's a story!
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"The stiffness of my body merged into a quiver, my respiration picking up weight from my strong abundant of emotions. Hot tears met my cheeks, continuing its journey down my jawline and finding itself lost down my neck rapidly.

I froze as his lips intruded the patches of tight skin lined up against my jawline, traveling towards my ear and dangerously lowering down my neck. Chills erupted throughout my being at my inability to comprehend how something could feel so disgusting and good concurrently. My confusion, defeat, and fear was enough to strike me into silence.

It was just a nightmare, yes, but fragments of what I had lived through not too many years ago."