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The Motherless Girl

by Geethika Sodhi
(Ghaziabad, India)

“I often wonder what if my destruction was a medium to protect my father who otherwise would have stayed in the marsh had he not seen me standing in brothels he once went himself to.”


An addicted alcoholic father who didn’t realise the filth he was in until his own daughter got sold off to a trafficking racket in the hands of those he trusted and accompanied. Her raped body that he laid with his own hands in the grave was a cost for his realisation, his protection, and his regret tears and guilt were all that remained to his life.


He was a new man but it was late. Spiritually amputated by his own deeds and left by fate to live ‘dying’ , for a lifetime. His teen daughter’s soul often haunted, silently watching him from tears leaving him in a state of despair for days. His wife had died giving birth to the daughter believing his promise to protect their amber like daughter which he had failed to do.

He hated sunshine as much as he hated himself for it reminded him of the shining face of his princess when she went to school every morning hoping to see a smiling father wishing her a good bye but only leaving behind a stinking one hanging over from a night soaked in sex and addiction.

In afternoons she returned home to a howling mad man throwing plates of food on the floor. She wondered what infected him in the nights that he woke up being this monster in the days. Mother less raised by loyal servants she lived in fear and pain and died raped in the hands of those whom her father trusted as their own.

She was the cost for a new life of a man whom evil had gripped for power. The unfortunate story of the little girl whom even almighty used, to resize reframe and rewrite her father’s destiny.

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