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" yelled the fat-bellied man, breathing he

ed, his voice rumbling throug

slow down. "You'll never catch me alive!" I cri

witch," the fat man muttered, hi

. My parents, destitute and disinterested, left me to languish in the corroded shackles of a broken home, casting me into a bleak and hopeless existence.

ainful precision, for as I stumbled, my pursuers

he force of it sending reverberations th

break my back, are you?” snarled the man who delivered the

razor-sharp daggers, piercing thro

pleaded, my voice quaking

pay you back, just

a bitter and biting wind that wh

it your junky father's in prison for life, or yo

next week " a big bellied man sa

my body shaking with fear and exhaustion. The men had depart

rocess the nightmare I had just endured. Every slap, every word of contempt, every thre

ack down again and again. Sleep offered me the fleeting comfort of oblivion, but when I awoke, my troubles woul

ght of my troubles. With the urgency of a soldier running into battle, I hurried

y's voice rang out, and the woman must

ed, the words vibrating w

could see the opport

mark like well-aimed arrows. I felt myself soaring on the

a knife in the dark. I froze, my heart plummeting fro

s a drug addict and serving his t

g, searing through the thin veneer of hope

shame echoing in the silent room. my words were slow and he

that I thought I had long ago learned to ignore

oor family background, we frown at anything that can brought harm to ou

as I went out of the offic

n the street, I received a s

as I raced to the hospital, my mother's life hanging

it pressing down on my shoulders like an oppressive hand. my mother, my fragile and gentle mot

a crushing blow, the fear and despair

r side, at this period, we might really loose you

already fragile heart, the pain of them reverberat

I murmured, my voice a whispe

d herself in. The crushing burden of debt, the shame of my family's past, the thr

my eyes, withh tears clouding my vision, I sank to the earth, my body racked with sobs of anguish and despair. The r

of hopelessness, a whisper of sound caught my attention. A soft footfall,

r you a job "

ike a rope thrown to a drowning woman. My tear-stained eyes lifted

nce radiating a sense of power and weal

d catching in throat like a