Wasting in the Rain

This is all she's known.

This is the shack she's been chained in for twelve years, since she was four years old. She's now sixteen. She's only known Mister, the man who has threatened her with guns, violence, rapes, and beatings every day for twelve years. She's only known the chickens she feeds, the guard dog who keeps her from escaping, and the house Mister lives in. She's only known the dinky pickup truck Mister took her away in. She only knows the name Mister has given her; she has forgotten her own.

It's all she's known.

She's only known the rains that drowned her tears while the rusting roof over her head leaked onto her hay bed below. She's only known the starving pains she encounters when Mister would punish her.

Now that's all changing.