Cynthia's BookWorld

   Chapter 1   An Uneventful Life     Anna sat on her bed again as she usually did every morning, and stared half dazed silently at the lone bulb hanging loosely from a dangling wire at the centre of the ceiling. There was no electricity. This didn’t bug Anna at all. In fact, it was expected now. The electricity had been epileptic for months normally settling more on the darkness than the light. She had come to rely heavily on the faint flicker of light that seeped in through the slightly parted red and white curtains that hung above her bed as her alarm to know that another long day had come to add to her unending list of long boring days.   Silence.   Then on cue… the thoughts crept in…   ‘What am I going to do today? …Why am I like this? …When will my situation change? …How much do I even have? 2k…3k? …When will I ever open a bank account? …I need a job. …Any job. …Wait… not any job. …A God sent job. Amen! …I’m tired. …Just tired’.  A tear...

 Survival Scars by Cynthia Osunwoke Survival Scars is a compelling story of a lady’s journey after graduation that takes her from self-doubt to self-preservation and self-actualisation. Anna, an unemployed lady who believes she's living a seemingly uneventful life, spirals into the beginnings of a depression but is given a life line, a new job full of promise and opportunity. However; getting a job wasn’t all Anna expected it to be. It ushered in a series of unprecedented events that turned what was presumably a life line into a fine line between life and death. Gaining courage from her mantra – “I must not snap”, Anna goes from joblessness, to helplessness, finally delving deep into her inner hidden strengths and coming out valiant, accepting the physical and emotional scars left behind as building blocks to a regenerated self she so needed to find. Look out for this novel coming out soon on www.amazon.com/author/cynthiaosunwoke . We will be sure to let you know the other outlets ...