This one might trigger some peoples queasiness about including children. It does describe what can be considered as child abuse with how the main character is treated.
It's something that has been floating around in my head for a while now and I decided to get it out and published all the same. If you don't like that kind of thing feel free to skip it.
Punishment
Elizabeth
comes running down the stairs out the back door of the orphanage and jumps from
the sixth step up down to the ground below. Unfortunately she didn’t see the
stick on the ground. Her left foot lands on it and the stick rolls out from
under her making her ankle twist unnaturally. She falls to the ground with her
leg bent up underneath her butt and gets the breath knocked out of her for a
second. When Elizabeth tries to stand up a sharp pain shoots up her leg and she
falls back down grabbing at her left foot.
“Owww!”
