June 20, 2015

LIFE-CYCLE - A Short Story

“Today, of course walking troubled you but I had to sell it. Education will lead you to a new life where pool of filth won’t be your domain anymore.”
His legs started trembling with fatigue, yet he gave a courageous nod and silently headed towards Amma’s shadow, only way he knew about walking.
“But Baba’s bicycle?” he whispered with half-shut eyes.
“He is… Your Baba might be riding horses somewhere in heaven.”
She unfurled the cloth on her skinny shoulders, the cloth she often used as a crown to support those heavy head-pans of cement at construction sites.