Fiction

The Child Labour

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Authored By:Vinayak Nagri

 

“Hey you twerp, get up” says Eric Smith

“S-sorry sir” stammers Greg Bisshoff

Greg is Eric’s servant. Greg is a 12 year old boy who is slim, has long hair and is a poor child who is picked up from the street by Eric. Eric is a 25 year old man; medium sized and is an upper class man. He picked Greg from the street where he used to beg for money. He offered Greg $25 per month if he worked at Eric’s house and Greg happily agreed.

“Why the hell are you still sleeping?” asks Eric angrily

“I am very sorry sir, I will never repeat this mistake” says Greg

It is 10:25 am and Greg had still been sleeping. After getting up, he made coffee for Eric and started sweeping and mopping the house.

The Urchin

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Authored by  Subramanian KS :

More than a thousand unknown faces passed through the sidewalk that night - faces that meant nothing to him. He didn't look up once to see who these strangers were. Nobody paid any special attention to him either. Those who did care to glance down at his nimble figure dismissed him as merely a boy, a shabbily dressed street urchin gyrating at the edge of the busy promenade trying to earn his daily bread, on a humid Sunday evening. Others, who stared at him a while longer, noticed that he was about 4 feet tall, wore ill-fitting, dull, grey pants which covered the length of his lower body. He also wore a washed-out, petal-covered shirt which shone brightly beneath the evening streetlights.