Confined To The Belly

For several months a little boy had been watching his mother's stomach increase in size.  It was becoming harder and harder to sit on her lap.

"Mommy, why is your stomach getting so big?"

He was told that his little sister was inside her stomach.

"Mommy, why is my little sister inside your stomach?"

He was told that he used to be in her stomach too.

When the boy's father got home, the boy asked his father if he could talk to him in private.  They went to the boy's room.

"Daddy, I need answers to two questions:  First, why does Mommy keep eating little kids?  And second, how did I escape?"

- submitted by Fred Lowery, Parables, Etc. (December 1993)