ALLISON
Darkness. It was the only thing I could see, but it wasn't peaceful.
I was back in the market. I could feel the hard stones hitting my skin. I could smell the rotten eggs and hear the cruel laughter of the teenagers and other villagers.
"Please!" I screamed in my dream, covering my head with my arms, as if to protect myself from their cruel actions. "Please stop! I didn't do anything!"
“Go away. You're a curse. You'll never be loved.” They roared in my sleep.
All of a sudden, the scene changed. I wasn't in the market anymore. I was back in that old, damp room with my father. I felt the sting of his belt and heard my grandmother’s cold voice telling me I was a mistake, a plague that should have been destroyed.
“We should have killed you the moment you were born.” Now it w
