Motivating Short Stories

  May never complain or criticize anyone. Ms. K once found out that May was throwing away scraps that were given to her as lunch. May hated the scraps and was throwing it away. However, Ms. K became so angry that she hit May. Another instance of the abuse was to kick May on her stomach as she was eating food after starving for a day. May held onto her stomach and was crying. Having no one to help her out, May gathered all the courage a fourteen year old could muster and decided to run away from the house that weekend when everyone was asleep.  Her plans didn't work out. May was asked to scrub pots and pans as Ms. K’s husband was planning to bring his colleagues home for dinner. May had to work more as she had more vessels to clean. She was also asked to clean the entire house and keep it spotless while Ms. K enjoyed her spa session and facial at the posh beauty parlor.   May was asked to sit quietly in her room while Ms. K latched the door. The colleagues visited the...

  It became tough for May to survive at that house. The woman, let's call her Ms. K, was a double faced person. She acted all lovey dovey to May if there were guests or someone important to her. When she was all alone at home, Ms. K would threaten her and ask her to keep working in the kitchen, ask her to keep it clean May knew that Ms. K’s husband was one of her best friends with her dad as she had seen the man hanging out with her father when she was young. However, the man never interfered or bothered to care about how May was being mistreated at the house. Other than the mental abuses like hurling bad words and gaslighting May saying that she was useless and would never succeed in life, the toxic Ms.K began to physically abuse her. May even wondered if Ms. K had a psychological issue as she was enjoying torturing May and loved her son with utmost care.  May wanted to try and contact her brother but was unaware of his whereabouts. The school authorities May was studying obs...

  May had lost her mom when she was too young to realize what had happened. She was just 5 years old.  Since then, her life was amongst her paternal grandparents. As unfortunate as her life was, she never saw her elder brother who was in the University. He was way older than her and they actually never had a bond after they had lost their mother. May never found out anything about her father or even saw him after being taken away by her grandparents.  Fate decided to be cruel to her as soon as she turned 13. She lost her grandparents to a car crash. She was devastated and wondered how she would survive. One of her uncles took her to a care home for orphans and left her there. It was a charity care home that managed to survive on the contributions of rich people. However, she made a few friends and most of them got adopted in a span of few months.  She was also adopted into a home where there was a man, his wife and their infant son, Harry. The woman was not that happ...