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    Verbally Marked
    Verbally Marked
    Verbally Marked
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    Verbally Marked

    By Mikayla Holden

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    Cara has been abused by her mother ever since she could remember. Pete has suffered from verbal and physical marks ever since his seventh birthday. Naomi, abused by her husband, has suffered from all forms of abuse. Verbally Marked follows each of their personal stories as they struggle to overcome the hardships that make up their daily lives.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMikayla Holden
    Release dateApr 27, 2012
    ISBN9781476382838
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      Book preview

      Verbally Marked - Mikayla Holden

      Verbally Marked

      Tale of The Abused

      Book One

      Mikayla C. Holden

      Copyright 2012

      All rights reserved. No part of this book may be used or reproduced by any means, graphic, electronic, or mechanical including photocopying, recording, taping, or by any information storage retrieval system without the written permission of the publisher except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles or reviews.

      Published by Mikayla Holden at Smashwords.

      ***

      This book is dedicated to everybody who helped edit, format and make this possible. Thank you!

      ***

      WARNING - this book contains mild/severe language.

      ***

      Chapter One | Cara

      Nobody ever told me what was,

      Right or wrong…

      I was in the dark;

      Completely alone…

      Do you know how that feels?

      To be in such a place,

      Where you never know,

      What’s right in front of you?

      To never know,

      What is normal behavior;

      Or is abnormal?

      All because those words;

      Faggot, pathetic,

      Loser, worthless,

      Bitch.

      Have you ever been called that?

      Seen their lips form the words

      That put you so far

      in that midnight black?

      Do you know what it’s like,

      To be me?

      I’ve never had a real friend…

      Would you like to be that friend,

      for me?

      Can you tell me why I am

      such a loser?

      Everybody calls me that.

      Don’t you think that

      of me too?

      Don’t you think

      I’m a loser?

      I’ve never had a real friend…

      would you like to be that friend

      for me?

      Would you…?

      You’re so different…

      Don’t you think that

      I’m a loser too?

      …Don’t you…?

      Chapter Two | Naomi

      Why does he

      Hate me so much?

      Did I do something wrong

      Again?

      Am I really

      That stupid?

      He is right,

      As always.

      I belong to him.

      I am his slave girl.

      And he deserves,

      So much more than me.

      He calls me

      Damaged goods.

      Why was I made

      To be a failure?

      He tells me it’s because

      I’m a nobody.

      Is he right?

      He’s always right.

      Chapter Three | Pete

      I want to walk

      But I have no strength

      To stand.

      My father’s words

      Hurt me more

      Than the thrum

      Of his fist’ against my ribs.

      But it wasn’t

      His fault

      That he had

      Me as a son.

      I should have

      Never burdened him.

      Never breathed.

      People criticize

      him,

      For how he

      Treats me.

      But don’t they know,

      That my dad is only

      Telling me

      The truth?

      That I am an

      Idiot.

      And that I am

      White trash?

      He says,

      I shouldn’t

      Be such a

      Smartass.

      He’s only being,

      Honest.

      Why do people,

      Tell me to get away

      From that?

      I don’t deserve

      To eat.

      I’m such a horrible

      Son.

      This pain,

      Is all my fault.

      All my fault.

      Chapter Four | Cara

      My mom came home,

      Drunk again.

      She says she drank

      So much because

      Of me.

      It was my fault

      She lay sick

      Every night.

      I deserve every

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