Archive for the ‘Child Stories’ Category
You can see the sadness in his eyes. It bears down deep into his soul. During our time at one of our church-based children’s homes in the Ivano-Frankivsk oblast (province) of Ukraine, Roman had his head downcast and didn’t interact with the other children around him. It was explained to us that he doesn’t talk, [...]
Originally written July 2007 by Paul Myhill Dressed in a small pink shirt, he had his head buried into the arm that was holding his weight against the corner of a bleak concrete wall. No older than three years old, he was sobbing incessantly, his chest heaving in utter anguish. He looked and sounded as [...]
Originally written July 2007 He was the product of an unholy union, a “taboo child” born to a brother and sister. The boy’s grandmother had arranged for a midwife to help with his delivery and to subsequently snuff out his life upon birth. Most likely, he was to be smothered until his little heart beat [...]
The little girl in the tattered yellow shirt was about six. Six years old. Yet, a thirty-something lady was picking up a baseball-sized rock to throw at her. Her crime? Hanging out in front of the lady’s store, begging food money from passersby. The little girl was frozen in shock, a veritable sitting duck. However, [...]
Originally written September 2008 by Paul Myhill Although we were told he has violent tendencies, Julio presented himself as a jovial and pleasant young boy. He stroked and tugged at my arm while continuously begging to have his picture taken. His broad smile was comprised of a mouthful of crooked teeth framed by parenthetical dimples. [...]
Originally written December 2007 Phary is a fourteen year-old girl in Cambodia. Her name means ‘beautiful flower’ and she certainly inherited her mother’s striking looks. However, her mother was sadly lost many years ago to a drug overdose. And her father was killed just last week in a street fight with a rival gang leader. [...]
Originally written December, 2007 Abejeeth is 5 years old. One year before the 2004 Tsunami hit his village, his mother was cooking the family meal over an open fire. An errant flame licked her highly-combustible Sari dress and she was soon engulfed. The shock and burns were too severe and she was quickly lost. Even [...]
Ethiopia is a beautiful land of beautiful people. It is also a land of orphans. It is not uncommon to find families consisting only of children. This is one such family – five siblings all orphaned by HIV/AIDS. The four girls and one boy had seen their parents taken by the disease a couple of [...]
WARNING: This story retells violent incidents which some readers may find disturbing. Reader discretion advised. By the time he was sixteen, he was already raping, maiming and killing as a child soldier in the Lord’s Resistance Army, a rebel terror group in northern Uganda headed by the maniacal Joseph Kony. We’ll call him Jeffrey. To [...]
A man in his sixties, accompanied by another who looked as if he could be his adult son, emerged from a narrow alley hand-in-hand with two young prostitutes in their early teens. The alley separated a seedy brothel from its next-door neighbor, a beauty salon. The beauty salon is run by a teenage girl, Mai [...]
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