A Child's Innocence

Chapter 1

Once upon a time there was a town called Louisville.
A quiet little town with a population of 1001 people. I was the additional one when i was born to Mr & Mrs Lamar Sheldon. My dad was black & my mum was white so i had the craziest hair...


We lived with my Grandmother from my Father's side. Unlike normal Grannies who make pastries & turkey on thanksgiving she used to hunt instead & dressed in old torn jeans with boots like a biker. She was queer but she was my granny & i loved her so much!


One day she came from hunting very distressed & asked my parents to meet her in the barn. I found this peculiar but i was just 8 & all i wanted to do was to dress up my barbie for bed.


From that day try spoke in hushed tones & the house was always on pin drop silence. They started joining my grandma in her hunting. Even my Southern Mother in her pretty flowery dresses would dress for the occassion & join in the shooting range. They bought many more guns. Some werent even & some were sniper guns, 40, 50 & 60 caliber guns.


So in school i asked what guns were used for cause i had seen them in a book i was reading because i couldnt exactly tell my teacher that all of a sudden we had an arsenal in our house. I doubted if it was even legal. She told me that such guns are used in battles & wars.
I asked in quite an innocent way whether there was an impeding war & she smiled & told me no &that i shouldnt worry about such at my age.