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RE: STACH Short Story Contest #16: 199 words, 10SBD prize pool!

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LIVE FREE

All her life she's lived with pressure of being an only girl child in society where the men rule over the women as slaves. The fear of growing into womanhood (becoming what she fears most; slavery) often dries up her little and sparse moments of laughter... And then hope came along and gripped her... She had been given a lifeline by a total stranger Live Free in a civilized society.

She was walking to the stream on a chilly Sunday evening, to wallow in the sorrow that awaits her, she is 16 years old with no form of education whatsoever(education is forbidden for a girl) when met these christian missionaries who would later become her saving grace.

Amazed that such a beautiful and an endearing teenage girl had no form of education, John Smith was hell bent on changing her status quo, his mind was made up! She had to Live Free.
Free from the fear of what tomorrow will bring,
free from the fear of ending up the way her mom did (died in the farm while trying kill a deadly cobra for it's meat),
free from the pressure of solely providing for her 6 brothers and an aged father.