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Lost Boy…Friday Fiction In Five Sentences.

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The voice of the security rang sharply and intermittently over the Mall’s public address system.

‘There’s a missing child with us, he is four years old, he is dressed in brown slacks and a blue shirt, please contact the security to identify him,’ the speaker kept announcing.

This went on for hours, but no one came.

Little Ashif was tired, tearful, hungry and hoped Mama would come and get him soon; he promised to be a good boy, if only she would come.

As days passed no one came and the little boy wondered why she never came back, after all, he had been a good boy when she said he should stand and wait; he became the ward of the State.

© Jacqueline Oby-Ikocha

P.S. This story came to me based on an experience at the Mall. A child went missing and the loud speakers went on for hours announcing and describing that child.

I was there for three hours or thereabouts and I left with a heavy mind. I wondered if the parents of that boy picked him up or not. I couldn’t help wondering how they misplaced him in such a huge mall in the first place.

*As a security caution, once we arrive any of the Malls here or anywhere, I look for the information desk and get a name tag band which my children wear on their wrists with my number and their dad’s own written on it, where that is not available, I write on a piece of paper and tuck it into their pockets, just in case there is a pandemonium or anything of the sort.

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A wordsmith with a vivid imagination, an eager mind and a burning desire to carve out tales. As I journey with my muse to that land of all possibilities and self discovery, I hope my personal evolution will serve as a beacon of inspiration for anyone who chooses to stop by.

29 thoughts on “Lost Boy…Friday Fiction In Five Sentences.”

  1. Oh. 😦 I felt sad for that boy. I guess (I hope I’m wrong) that her mom intentionally left him. What’s more sad is that this kind of incident really happens in real life.

    Nice one, Jacq. Thank you for the caution it was an eye-opening tip.

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  6. So sad. I saw this happen on the beach down South a few years. Little crying walking up and down the beach. When the parents turned up (someone called the police), the parents seemed unfazed and yelled at him. I and everyone else was livid! 😤

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  8. How horrifying for the child. I can’t imagine what went through his mind. I have read news stories similar to this and I just don’t understand. However, I would rather see this situation then reading about a child abused or murdered.

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  11. I absolutely love the safety measures that you take in ensuring your children’s safety while at the mall and like you, am saddened that a child’s parent would leave them at the mall like that. Unless they were hearing impaired, they should have been able to hear the intercom describing their lost child. Three hours is just way too long to not notice that something is wrong.

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