SLOANE

Iris had told me to run away but I couldn’t get far.

I ran helter skelter in the woods, in an attempt to somehow slip through their fingers and I only realized how persistent they were.

They kept coming after me. Until I grew tired, and slumped on the ground. I tried my best to stand up when I felt water trickling out of my virgina to the floor, and a sudden cry burst out of my mouth out of nowhere.

I didn’t need someone to tell me the child was coming. And also that the ...