Outstanding Stories » The Real And Make Believe Mom

“The Real And Make Believe Mom” is one of the outstanding stories (sub-junior) of the second biannual International Short Story Contest 2018 written by Veer B Patel, Shree Vallabh Sanskar Dham, India.

The Real And Make Believe Mom

Two women were fast friends. They were neighbors and childless. By the grace of god, one of them blessed with a son, years later. They decided to bring up the child together and not tell others of their village about which one of them was the mother.

That way the childless woman did not feel bad and no one could taunt her. The real mother wanted to protect her friend.

But one day the other woman turned dishonest, and she told, “This child is mine. Now I don’t want to you to touch him. You are always making a mess of him.” It shocked the real mother. She tried to snatch back her child.

They both started quarrelling for the child and the problem became too big. Both of them started climbing on each other to be the real mother of the boy. The dispute was taken to the court also. The judge heard the case. Both of them got respective positions and the claims also. It was difficult for all to say who is the real mother of the boy. At last the judge got an idea. He ordered to the court to cut the child into two equal parts and give each part to both of them. Both the women stood quiet for sometime then one woman started crying and pleaded the judge to give the child to other lady. She was having tears in her eyes. But the other woman has a cunning smile on her face. She was thinking that she is winning this case.

The judge came to know about the cunningness of the woman, so he ordered that he will give final statement after a short break. In that time he sent one of his secret spy to see what the both women will do in the break time. After coming back he told the judge that the one who said to give the child to other one is the real mother of the child as in break time she was praying the god for good blessings for her child and other one was not worried about the result.

After the break time when they gathered again in court, the judge ordered to give the child to the first woman and send other one in jail. And said that I came to know at the same moment when you said to give the child to other one rather then cut him into two parts. Only a mother can do all kind of sacrifices for her children.