Escape from Miari

Escape from Miari

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Kim Mi-sook was a sex slave
In a notorious red-light district
Miari.

That officially
did not exist
In Seoul.

She had been kidnapped
Off the streets as a young girl
And raped and drugged
And make a sex worker
A sex slave.

Serving on average ten customers
Per night seven days a week
Earning nothing
But being fed and given a room
And rudimentary medical care.

Sam Adams was one of her regulars
He was nice and she liked talking to him
He taught her some English
And seem to care about her.

One day he asked her
What would it take to free her
From her enslavement?

She told him about 25,000 dollars
Sam met her pimp madame
And paid the bill.

She went home with him
He enrolled her in an English program
While he worked.

Six months later he told her
He was leaving
And she would join him
As his wife.

She went to the states
Got a degree
And a real job.
had two kids.

And finally escaped
From the game
From sex slavery,

NEW PROMPT


March 20, 1852, saw the publication, in book form, of Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin , a novel which had appeared in serial form the previous year in an abolitionist periodical.

The story was written to condemn the institution of slavery and to depict Christian charity overcoming the prejudices and social forces which supported that institution. The work was the best-selling novel in the nineteenth century -- and the best-selling book, after the Bible -- and helped gain support for the abolitionist cause in the 1850s.

Though today, the phrase "an Uncle Tom" has acquired a pejorative connotation, in the book itself, the eponymous protagonist is a noble character, standing up for his beliefs and standing fast in support of friends and family.

For tomorrow, write a poem or story about someone escaping from slavery.

The slavery could be literal -- either the race-based slavery of the nineteenth century, the economic slavery of Roman times, or any other historical form of slavery.

Or it could be metaphorical: enslavement to alcohol, for example, or to a dysfunctional relationship, or to a grueling low-wage job.

Whatever sort of "slavery" you pick, though, make sure that the work's plot and conflict center around trying to escape the situation.

Due March 20, 2025 before noon, WdC time. === ( Deadline: