Call me Rose for I am indeed second-hand. I’ve spent the last six years of my life filling a void and feeling like a cheap replacement for a cracked old vase that got broken beyond repair.
But I am breaking too…
Excerpt from Playing Rose
She hung me out of the window by the boots on my feet. Arms flailing I had nothing to grab on to. A crowd gathered cheering her on as she swung me from side to side, my shaven head scraping the wall. The pain I was feeling was not from the bricks or the bruising, but the humiliation of it all.
Surviving Isobel
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