Fatma Al-Zahraa

'ALL IT TAKES IS SLIT WRISTS, THEN THERE'S NO WAY OUT.'

Roseline hates what has become of herself. She was dumped by her boyfriend, her parents are divorced, she is bullied at school, and her siblings overshadow her. Her existence is pointless, translating into an uncertain, gloomy future.

She wants out. And she thinks she gets it once she realizes that the blood running through her veins is all that links her to the cruel world.

She slits her wrists and all that follows makes her realize that this wasn't the out she was looking for. 

She's petrified when she realizes that she isn't really dead (at least not spiritually, as she likes to think) and is watching the consequences of her action unfold in front of her.

Awful secrets are revealed and masks fall as Roseline fights her way through, asking herself the same question 'every day'- Will I find a way out out of my way out? Or will I be trapped here? Forever?

It Ends With Stars

Tobias scratches his head and holds his hip before glancing at me. Glancing at the disaster my face is as I watch Sierra lean toward Joshua on a bed that isn’t his or hers. 


And it’s funny that I feel nothing. My heart seems to have taken a pause mid-beat, not knowing if it should jump in anger and disgust, or just relax/die in sadness and disappointment. 


“That’s paradoxical,” Tobias says as Joshua slowly copies Sierra’s move. 


I blink away his remark and try not to focus on the tiny details of my situation. I try not to focus on, hey, this is your ex-boyfriend and ex-best friend doing the ‘shame-shame’. That, hey, they’re supposed to be hating each other. 


“I’m sorry,” Tobias whispers for some reason but I can’t spare the time to reply as I think of ways I could get away with murdering two people at once. I think of bashing their heads dead to the bedpost, slicing their bodies to smithereens and feeding them to the fishes. Cause this is where our friendship sleeps. 


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