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She checked the items off the list.
One by one by one by one.
She’d learned to not look too far down. Better to not confront endlessness. To not have to face it that today, too, there will not be a moment when the job is done. When she is free.
Only another task.
Another chore.
Mistress claimed she was “indispensable.”
Praise or curse for why she could not get a few days off to see her ailing mother. To rest. To marry.
“We’re your family,” Mistress had said. “We need you. It is a requisite you stay.”
For Sammi’s Weekend Writing Challenge: Requisite in 98 words
Na'ama Yehuda 
However did she land herself in such a position? The poor dear would probably find herself in dire straights should she become less “indispensable”…
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Indeed! And in many places (even in countries where we would rather not believe that modern slavery and indentured service exists), this is still reality. With little choices, or worse choices if one does lose their job, and often with dire straights indeed, as you wrote. It is heartbreaking to think this goes on today. And yet, it does.
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Yeah… So wish this was 100% fiction but we know it’s not. Well written though!
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Thank you, my friend! XOXO
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A situation that many have endured and sadly will continue to do so.
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Indeed! Thank you, Keith. And many still wish to pretend no longer exist, or is somehow ‘beneficial’ to the exploited. …
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Na’ama Y’karah,
Such a treacherous situation. I hate it that it still goes on. Well written.
Shalom,
Rochelle
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Thank you, Rochelle! If you didn’t hate it that it is still going on, then we’d have something wrong with us … Here’s to hoping that sooner rather than later, humanity will evolve above exploiting others. Amen.
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I took another trip down Memory Lane for mine. https://rochellewisoff.com/2021/07/11/weekend-writing-prompt-requisite/
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