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    Dying To Be Fine
    Dying To Be Fine
    Dying To Be Fine
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    Dying To Be Fine

    By Hood Chronicles

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    Hailing from Baton Rouge Louisiana, Yasmine is a young woman forced into the harsh reality of life on the streets. After being pushed out of her mother’s home, she learns that survival without help in sight is not an easy task. Facing trials and tribulations, she manages to make a glamorous life for herself in the entertainment industry, but only after undergoing cosmetic surgery. With her new astronomically sized assets, Yasmine finds herself the envy of women and the desire of men. Taking her younger sister into her household, she teaches her the tricks of the trade and attempts to teach her the lessons she herself learned the hard way. Coming of age, the defiant sibling has plans of her own, and feels that Yasmine's adamant rules stem from a hidden jealousy. Delving into the black market, Yasmine and her sister meet the one person who will teach them that everything that glitters ain’t gold, and you can fall just as quickly as you rise. Follow Yasmine's gripping story as she takes you on a mesmerizing trip with karma, sacrifice, and full-blown suspense!

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHood Chronicles
    Release dateJun 1, 2017
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      Dying To Be Fine - Hood Chronicles

      Dying to be fine

      Copyright 2014 Hood Chronicles

      Published by Hood Chronicles at Smashwords

      Smashwords Edition License Notes

      This ebook is licensed for your personal enjoyment only. This ebook may not be re-sold or given away to other people. If you would like to share this book with another person, please purchase an additional copy for each recipient. If you’re reading this book and did not purchase it, or it was not purchased for your enjoyment only, then please return to Smashwords.com or your favorite retailer and purchase your own copy. Thank you for respecting the hard work of this author.

      Table of Contents

      Introduction: Poor Baby Girl (Poem)

      Chapter 1: Reflections

      Chapter 2: The Come Up

      Chapter 3: Six Months Prior

      Chapter 4: Madam Sylvia

      Chapter 5: Enough in Enough

      Epilogue

      Hood’s Take on a Woman’s Worth

      Interview with Mama Hood

      Poor Baby Girl poem

      Swinging her hips to the melodic sounds of America's beat, she shimmies around in her halter and skirt

      Labeled by the boys as a mere freak

      As long as she's paid, she could care less what anybody may choose to think

      This weekend she'll be able to get those heels she's been shake-dancing for is what crosses her mind as she downs another drink

      Stumbling in the door, she falls to the floor and hears a tiny voice ask, Mommy what's wrong?

      Poor Lil' girl, stuck in this cruel world where she's forced to call Hell her unfortunate home

      In comes a man to help Mommy up as she drunkenly giggles at her baby girl

      Go back to your room, is all she can say as the stranger salaciously fondles her pearls

      Behind a closed door, baby girl cries, realizing that every night is destined to be the same

      Screams come from next door as baby girl prays that one day her mother would change

      The next morning, police woke that child to an alarming truth

      Her mother had been strangled to death and all they had was the perpetrators shoe

      Growing through the pain of loss and misery, baby girl seemed to have found her way

      The only path in which she was ever taught to travel which led to her mother’s grave...

      Poor Baby Girl

      Chapter 1: Reflections

      Yasmine stood in the mirror glancing at the reflection of a broken woman. A woman who had seen it all in such a short period of a youthful existence of pain. With her mascara smeared and running down her wet cheeks, the twenty-six year old expressed the anguish consuming her through tears.

      Disgusted at the sight of herself, she turned to the only friend she had left in the world. That white girl was her friend, because no matter what, she was always there. Non-judgmental, that white girl was simply there as a constant upper and motivational spirit. Her best friend, that white girl, was the little powdery flakes of cocaine, which she dumped onto the shabby desk in front of her.

      With her hand trembling, Yasmine pulled out a debit card, which was as useless to her as a plastic cassette tape. She was out of money, out of hope, and running out of time. Taking the card, she quickly, yet carefully, separated the cocaine into lengthy lines.

      Hearing the thunderous knocks at the door grow louder, she blocked out the men’s voices as they ordered her to come out. Rolling up a dollar bill that she found in the corner of the room, she placed it to her nose and bowed her head. In one swift motion, she tossed her head back and looked back into the mirror.

      Looking at a lost soul, the drug-induced state she was slipping into, took her mind to the very beginning...

      ****

      Yaz! You get in here right this very second, her mother ordered. In haste, the seventeen-year-old rushed to see what her mother was upset about. Yes ma'am? she questioned.

      With fury in her eyes, her mother snatched her by the arm and began to speak. Don't you dare yes ma'am me, like you are innocent! Where did you get these garments?

      Yasmine’s eyes moved from her mother to her bed. All of her clothes were sprawled out, and she knew that her mom was about to let her have it.

      "Don't

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