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RE: STACH Short Story Contest #14: 199 words, 15SBD prize pool!

in #contest7 years ago

Aisha was scared, the planned wedding with Abdul wasnt the problem, she was scared of having kids and all the responsiblity that comes with it. It scares her, that someday, she's going to be wholly responsible for the lives of some folks who will poo and pee and cry and play all day and demand stuff they never worked for. She's scared she's gonna do that job for some twenty years coming. And later still worry about how they turn out, whether they are single or married. Responsible or foolish. Straight or not. Godly or wayward. Happy or sad. Moulding their lives when she's yet to figure out her own life and shit. She is to do all these for these guys for no reason whatsoever other than the fact that she slept with their dad in other to continue his lineage as every wife is expected to! She had to get married to Abdul and have those kids, it was what her family and the society expected of her as a woman.... Women dont really have a say in the world she belongs in....Thats life as we know it...