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Uptown Girl
Trigger warning: mention of sexual assaultDelhi—the capital city of India—is a very busy place. Mitty worked here for a short period in a very successful MNC. This was the first time Mitty ever stepped out of her hometown. She stayed with her eldest sister, Sara, who was already living there. Delhi was some kind of a big deal for Mitty, a small-town girl who was not very ambitious and pretty complacent in a metropolitan city for her first job. She had always seen Delhi as an alien land with people who were completely different than those that she had seen or met till now. She mostly imagined p...
How the Fish Survive
The light that fills the room feels cold and blue, tinted by the shades across the window. This window faces south, so the light trickles in slowly and at first I can ignore it, but eventually I must open my eyes to this underwater light and take a deep breath in. I used to get up so early. Some days I would go outside and watch the sunrise, warming my hands with a mug of herbal tea. The world was quiet, but not still. I admired the people moving about the streets, getting an early start. We had something in common, they and I. We all knew the feeling of the first light of day rising over the...
Stumbling Through the Darkness by Cara Fidler
It had been 6 months since Frank and I broke up after I found him in bed with another woman. Devastated, I ran outside, picked up a brick and threw it through the bedroom window shattering the glass. The pain was so excruciating it cut me like a knife. I stumbled to the car, adrenalin rushing through my veins. Shaking like a leaf, I put my keys into the ignition and peeled wheels out of there. I couldn't believe what I had just seen. The magnitude of the betrayal was suffocating and greater than anything I'd ever experienced. I drove home and unlocked the door to my apartment, then sat dow...
Parts of a Puzzle
The first week, Mother bargained day and night. The second week, Father argued with Mother and bargained with her. The third week, Mother left the world. Because of... something. Something that I didn’t even know about.I think it was from pure exhaustion. Father thinks www.onedoor.ccit was his fault. He thinks it was because he argued with her too much. And something else.The fourth week, he deteriorated into a state of... horribleness, I don’t know how to describe it. Sometimes he’s okay, other times refusing to eat or drink anything, and muttering things like “Lilmajorie...Why did you have to leave...My...