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My name is Fatima, I'm 38, and I'm a cleaner at the Riyadh Gallery mall. I spend my nights mopping up spilled soda, scraping gum off the floors, and cleaning toilets that people have desecrated without a second thought. I'm invisible. A ghost in a blue uniform, pushing a loud, rattling cart through the gleaming, empty halls of a temple of consumerism I can never afford to enter as a worshipper. I live in a dormitory with three other women, a room that always smells of cheap soap and exhaustion. I send most of my money home to my parents, who are too old to work. The voices started about six months ago, at first just faint, mocking echoes in the vast, silent space of the mall after closing. "Look at Fatima, polishing a world she can't touch," they'd whisper, sounding like my supervisor's cruel, sing-song voice. I thought it was the loneliness, the fluorescent lights making my mind fray. Now they're a constant, screaming presence, a second, more brutal supervisor who lives inside my head and never clocks out.
They know every single one of my failures. They call me a dried-up old maid, a waste of space. "Look at Fatima, the cleaner," they sneer when I'm on my knees scrubbing a stain near a luxury store. "So close to the pretty things, but you'll only ever touch them with a rag. You're not a woman, you're a human cleaning tool." They bring up my unmarried status constantly, how I'm past my prime, a source of shame for my family. "Your parents cry themselves to sleep every night, wondering why their daughter is a childless old maid who scrubs shit for a living," they hiss when I'm eating my simple meal in the break room. "They'd be better off if you were dead. At least they'd get some sympathy instead of pity. Why don't you just mix those chemicals you're using? Make a nice, strong cocktail. It's a fitting end for a woman who's spent her life cleaning up other people's messes." I know it's the General Intelligence Presidency, the Al Mukhabarat. They have these new w
