I wouldn’t have been brutally beaten up, I wouldn’t have been terribly tortured, I wouldn’t have been sexually crushed countless times, I wouldn’t have been kept hungry and thirsty for days, I wouldn’t have been caged in a dingy and stinky room for months, I wouldn’t have had my heart deeply hurt and my soul badly bruised, I wouldn’t have been reduced to a subhuman existence, I wouldn’t have been a plaything, a toy in the hands of men-looking monsters, had I not been kidnapped, when I was just 14. These are my pangs—the pangs of a prostitute forever.
30/9/2022 12:41:34 pm
Ripped my heart out.
Cindy Patrick
30/9/2022 01:18:27 pm
Paritish, I cannot help but be hit in the face. Truth hurts and it saddens.Well told. 30/9/2022 04:25:16 pm
Pangs to the reader as well, this is just haunting (as Don points out). Well done
Krystyna
30/9/2022 05:43:03 pm
Pangs of inexcusable pain. Images so explicit, so brilliantly presented in your thought endearing story, Paritosh. Most excellent!
Tom Baldwin
30/9/2022 09:45:26 pm
So painful, and so well-written.
Sue Clayton
1/10/2022 06:25:38 am
A once young boy's torturous tale, Paritosh.
Padmini
1/10/2022 09:54:38 am
So well-written and hard hitting...
Jennifer Duncan
2/10/2022 12:02:02 pm
It is terrible that we have somehow normalized sex work when at its root is abuse and destruction. Well written.
Fliss Zakaszewska
5/10/2022 12:56:24 pm
A brutal reminder of the lives some girls (and boys) are forced to live. Beautifully written in an understated way, driving home the inhumanity of it even further. Well done.
Avis Lang
5/10/2022 10:18:32 pm
OMG, so powerful. So much said in such a short space. Comments are closed.
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