The survivor bride

d always choosing deserted places for her heroic, endeavours. The weather had turned chilly and after some time she started g

with men for money, And as the weather turned colder, she was not able to go out, but w

r but her mother had stopped caring, s

was opening the door and a huge man came in, She pretended not to have seen or heard anything and wondered what exactly her mother was up to, only t

u in pain," Sunny asked alm

problems," Hilda said, she was pleading with her, and she pulled

mother was sleeping, it vibrated as he talked like he w

ness and be on the way she won't bother you again,"

rls when am doing my business, next time expla

the little girl al

ng, when her Mother screamed and whimpered, The pitiful sounds continued until that block of a man left, Sunny sniffed for some time, she could not go and comfo

tionless, remembering all the obscene banter, she h

ery filthy gesture and they all came back to her, an

mind raced back and she came to think of all the late nights and all the ballet stories, to her now it was all lie

her quiver, She was a big girl now as she clenched her thin legs together tightly and folded her arms to her chest" No one will

t to discuss with her Mother, she divided maybe spending the day at the highway would be a good opti

ke any effort to puck them and cover herself up, Sunny checked and there were ugly bruises on the shoulders, Some de

, a cold ache surrounded her heart but she had nothing to do " we will eat well for three days but the price it's too high an

teach her how to fish, within no time she had become a professional like her mother, she could catch lobsters easily, ev

a swollen eye it a bleeding lip, Sunny had to learn to survive on her own, that's why she had taught

ays hurled at a corner lamenting and chanting audibly, only getting up

was paid and others never cared, she didn't even notice, Sunny was providing well for the both of them, Sunny tried

k the harsh growls from shameless men who heaved on her mother without care that a teenage girl resided in the same house. Hilda

afford food and a place to sleep, the mother acted bewitched, she kept saying her daughter was specia

her by bad luck as she was doing her fishing job she would recoil and leav

ly she would avert her gaze, and get serious, she has never seen a kind man, they

other called her and said, "Remember you are my sp

gnity, are you happy with this character you adopted," Sunn

at freedom but do not perch in any tree, look for a tree that has enough food and shelter in it, and when you perch, make sure yo

erstanding is not of that calibre, break it for me mother," Sunny beg

ping in her bed her legs got swollen and painfully, and most nights she missed and wreathed in

lifeless in her bed, Since she never had any friends, Sunny folded her mother's body with her bedding a

day to a lifelessness, she had cried tonnes of tears mostly in the last few days when she realized it was only a matter of time and one day she will walk home and