The Fight Belonged to Her
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“It’s best to do what your dad says without making any waves.”
Robin understood it was the men in her life who had the control. After a lifetime of feeling powerless and witnessing her mother’s potential being crushed under the weight of compliance, Robin is ready to fight back, even if it means pushing against those closest to her.
Rasmenia Massoud
Rasmenia Massoud was born just outside of Washington D.C. somewhere during the era of Hunter S. Thompson vs. Nixon, but never lived there. She just happened to be in the area. She grew up in Colorado where she made a living with both blue and white collars at various times in her life before deciding that collars are not good, and that writing stories was very good. In addition to spending several years in various Colorado towns, she has also lived in Florida, Pennsylvania, Indiana, England, Paris, and the French countryside; traveling to a number of states and countries in between. All the while, thinking deeply about the places and the people she encounters, and writing things down. She looks for the cracks, the scars under the flesh, gathers them up and molds them into stories in an effort to understand what fascinates, confuses and infuriates her the most: human beings. Rasmenia Massoud is the author of the short story collections HUMAN DETRITUS and BROKEN ABROAD. Dozens of her stories have been published online and in print, including The Foundling Review, The Lowestoft Chronicle, Literary Orphans, Metazen, The Molotov Cocktail, Full of Crow, Flash Fiction Offensive, Black Heart Magazine, Every Day Fiction, Big Pulp, and Underground Voices. A third collection and two novellas are also forthcoming. Rasmenia blogs semi-regularly about the awkwardness, frustration and joy of expatriation, food, the craft of writing, and the learning curves that come from being a broken, awkward, and dysfunctional human. She currently lives in southern England with her husband, their loyal chocolate lab and mischievous feline sidekick.
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The Fight Belonged to Her - Rasmenia Massoud
The Fight Belonged to Her
A Short Story
by
Rasmenia Massoud
ISBN: 9780463968475
Copyright © Rasmenia Massoud 2019
https://www.rasmenia.com
Smashwords Edition
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Cover design by Rasmenia Massoud 2019
All rights reserved.
No part of this book may be reproduced in any form or by any electronic or mechanical means including information storage and retrieval systems, without permission in writing from the author. The only exception is by a reviewer, who may quote short excerpts in a review.
This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, business, events and incidents are the products of the author’s imagination. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, or actual events is purely coincidental. The Patriarchy, however, is ancient and alive, and while in its death throes, should never be thought to be anything other than very real.
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Robin’s father loomed in the doorway of her bedroom as hard and immovable as the wooden door frame itself. He’d arrived abruptly and without warning, his appearance punctuated with a loud thud as the doorknob hit the wall. Slight and silent behind him, her mother Connie offered a meek smile and disappeared down the hallway.
Turn that garbage off.
He pointed at the boom box on the dresser.
Robin closed her notebook and tapped a button on the cassette player, interrupting Axl Rose mid-wail. What’s up?
He polished his sunglasses with his t-shirt. Get your shoes on. I’ll wait for you in the car.
He slid his shades on, then turned and vanished without further discussion.
Robin slid off her bed and twisted her wavy brown hair into a bun. She grabbed her own sunglasses