Snow And The Wight: Strange Days

Table of Contents

Snow and the Wight | By BJ Edwards

Snow and the Wight

By BJ Edwards

They called her Snow at school, mercilessly bullying her, pointing out how different she was from the other children in her school inTujuana, Mexico. For, despite being Mexican herself, Rosa was Albino, pale skin, pale hair, pale eyes in stark contrast to her classmates’ darker complexions. As a child, Rosa had been brought to the edge of the precipice, her mental health hanging on by a slim thread. Were it not for the love and constant support of her father, she would have fallen. Everyday he told her she was beautiful, his little marvel. And every day she believed him more, until eventually, she ignored the bullies and saw herself as unique. When she reached fourteen, her father began to call her his White Rose, and Rosa smiled her radiant smile and like a rose, she began to blossom, happiness crashing in and eclipsing the trauma of her earlier years. As a trio, Rosa, her mother Josephina, and her father Carlo, were happy. That was until one overcast afternoon her life fell apart.

The police had said it was a drive-by shooting, a tragic, random act of violence. A shot at close range, one bullet, one life extinguished. Rosa knew better, Rosa knew that it was not a random act of violence, it was murder. For, when her father had been out to sea, trawling, his wife had been visited regularly by a man called Lorenzo, a notorious and feared drug lord. And now, three years since her father’s death, Rosa and Josephina lived with Lorenzo and his personal assistant in a lavish Hacienda on the beach.

He snorted the line of