Five Sentence Fiction – Innocence

Five Sentence Fiction – Innocence

 

Innocence

 

Sometimes children ask some questions in all their innocence, you find very difficult to answer.

 

When my little friends, who gather in the evening to hear a story, asked how they came on the earth, I fumbled for an answer as they were too small to tell the truth.

 

I told them that when parents promise to God that they will not fight and love and take care of a child only then God gives them a child.

 

‘If parents fight with each other god will not give them a child?’ one of them asked.

 

Another one interrupted ‘ then how come my neighbor has four children even though they fight all the time?’