My Literary Honours year Thesis. Based on Orientalism and re-tellings of the story: "Aladdin".

Maddie, the main character of the story, is an only child. She lives on the farm with her two parents and feels alone as a result. She struggles to find peace and love, until Dad surprises her. Easter comes around and this is where a new beginning starts, but ends quickly too. Little does she know where her desperate need to be loved lies...

Fact is stranger than fiction. Myiasis is known as the infestation brought about by maggots or fly larvae that grow inside a living being. This is a short story based on the misfortunes brought upon an ordinary school boy.