Tag: arranged marriage
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NaNoWriMo 2015: ‘Runaway Girl’ Part 5
This is the last part of Runaway Girl (for now!). I had a lot of fun revisiting this story, so maybe next NaNoWriMo I’ll write another four or five parts. Read the previous parts here. The following weeks consisted of Priya and I searching for a job. “How about modelling?” she’d suggested. “Maybe hand modelling for jewelry and…
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NaNoWriMo 2015: ‘Runaway Girl’ Part 4
This was supposed to be the last part of Runaway Girl, but since there’s one more Sunday in November, and I’ve been getting a lot of views on the NaNoWriMo posts, I’ve decided to make this a five part story! Enjoy part 4! (Read the previous parts here). I got up from the table with an…
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NaNoWriMo 2015: ‘Runaway Girl’ Part 3
Enjoy part 3 of Runaway Girl. (Read part 1 and part 2) It’s been two weeks since I left Bangladesh. I feel so free here in New York. Priya and Greg have taken me to a Broadway show and to a few museums in Manhattan. Everything is so beautiful here. A smile wouldn’t leave my face until…
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NaNoWriMo 2015: ‘Runaway Girl’ Part 2
Enjoy the second part of Runaway Girl! (Read part 1 here) It was only five o’clock in the morning when I tiptoed down the stairs and out the back door of the house. I took one last look at the family photo on the living room table and then I left. I was going to miss this…
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NaNoWriMo 2015: ‘Runaway Girl’ Part 1
I’ve decide to participate in NaNoWriMo this year! The story I’ll be sharing here on my blog is one that I wrote as a Year 1 at Bard High School Early College Queens. The prompt was “family injustice” so I wrote about a Bengali girl whose parents were forcing her to marry someone she has no interest…
The Whisper Box 