The Three Babies

Each of the three babies awed at the setting sun. An infancy somehow finds wonder and astonishment even in a day-to-day life. The babies knew that it would get dark now and in order to distract their infant minds from crying, they had to resort to something.

That is when the TV came to their rescue. Somehow these babies could picture anything on the blank TV screen, putting their colorful imaginations to use and thereby entertaining themselves. But today was different, as that much awaited day of fun and games was here and each one of the three babies sat in a line, like three pre-programmed robots. One of them tenderly pressed the power button on the remote control.

As soon as the TV was on, all 3 of them clapped, uttering cute gibberish words to express the happiness they felt inside their little hearts. There were three ends of ropes kept beside each one of them. After their gibberish display of happiness ended, one of the babies pulled the rope kept beside him. Immediately after the rope was pulled, all three babies screamed with glee as they clapped with joyous expressions, looking at the screen. Now it was the second baby's turn to pull his rope and even he did the same, replicating the same reaction.

Finally the third baby pulled his rope but somehow the other babies did not burst out into an outburst of amusement. So he pulled it again and again and again, until the rope finally broke off and fell down like a lifeless serpent. The baby got up, hiding his anger under an irresistibly adorable face. He headed out through the backdoor into the backyard. He ran towards the stool which was the only thing his eyes could spot. As soon as his tiny palms reached the stool, he pushed the stool hard and it hit the fence couple of feet beyond. With this the two babies sitting inside started cheering loudly. The baby's eyes looked at the pair of legs hanging down. He laughed watching them tremble as they eventually became still.

The baby looked up at the face of the corpse hanging from the tree, "Wasn't that fun?!" he said and ran away inside.

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I love babies.