No More

"NO MORE" is the sickening and twisted coming-of-age story of one Anita Planetka. As we follow Anita through the beginning of what may have been any other of her drearily normal days, we see how suddenly an ordinary situation can turn drastically for the worst.

Anita's story is that of many people's; though, most notably of young women's. Primarily inspired by the author's own firsthand experience of being targeted by human traffickers, less than a mile from her home right here in Sacramento, California-the world's hottest sandbox for the unforgivably pervasive. Within this mirror reflecting the lives of so many vanished and still missing young women, Anita and her unlikely sisters find themselves in the jaws of their worst nightmare-other people.


" 'How many girls would have to be crying for it to smell this salty in here?' she probes privately, gathering herself back to consciousnesses.
As soon as the words 'in here' flash through her, Anita realizes that she is in a tightly enclosed space-that is moving. Traffic sounds brim her attention, waves crash distantly outside. 'Maybe there aren't that many girls in here...'.

...

How she wishes she stilled cried this far in. It would have been something different. A release instead of a constant pressure. How her arms continued everyday getting harder to lift, 'Is it from the syringes or lack of food? They must have changed what they give us. But when?'

'No more, ' she begs of her forsaken self. Lying, holding and rocking herself so lightly upon the dingy, disgusting cot. Her headspace in this quarter light, the only place she has left to comfort herself. No matter how repetitive or pointless. Chopped knees tucked into twig-stick arms, seeking limitlessly to unburden herself of longings.

'No more, ' her voice breaks in her own ears.

'No more, ' she rips, deep inside-alone."