She stoops to conquer

d open the door of the house. The lock was broken-again-

Just the drip-drip-drip of the kitchen s

ag-two cans of soup, ha

d was

t: blood smeared on the floorboards, leading to the

wall, clutching a rusted box

here."I didn't know if she was talking ab

o a wet cough. Then silence

I pried the box from Ma'

to of a woman

beside a man in a tailored suit. She was well dressed &

hat is this...

nodded

ed past the slums then. What became of them now she couldn't tell... she had since never heard of them neither could she tell what

a knock at

.& she lived with her foster family.. she knew them ever since she was youn

arrel with her ma which happened frequently... Now she had taken ill she suffered heart problem & stroke. She heard her ma discussing with her husband that her sickness was a 'lost caus

L

gotten that someone had kno

had said while walking in .."Mom had sent f

ma needed help, I would b

that she left... They had assigned a nurse to

put her back on her old dusty bed...then

something about my real parents.. p

kly & her breat

had a really rich family & ... She coughed

my famil

andma had stopped breathing

ad. Len covered her face

y her feelings were mixed with anger & sadness & pain.. She cried for a long time too, she was going to miss grandma alot but then again annoyed at the same time because she hadn't asked Grandma anything befo