Sajid Iqbal

Girls in a Dark Well Sajid Iqbal

The novella, "Girls in a Dark Well" is based on the sufferings of an innocent girl in her teenage who fell in true love with a boy. The boy was not in love but he was making her his prey to sell her to a prostitute house in order to earn handsome amount of money. At last stage, the boy also falls in true love but his partner sold her in a tricky way when they were dating at his farm house. The boy struggles to find her in order to bring her back to his life. The story involves the suffering of the girl when she was sold to a prostitute house and how she spends few nights there and the struggles of the boy in how he plans to find her and brings her back. The boy explores the entire network associated with prostitution and startled the readers to know them with some strange, bitter, and hidden fact of routine day life. The story reveals the way prostitute house are in work in Asian context and insecurities of the girls entrapped in the prostitution web. The story involves four deaths with a happy ending.