Was this for one of the year for IMPAC Dublin literary award, If I Could Change the World? Lol!

Wow, you've got an almost poetical quality about your prose - that's rare. I especially love the line, "No tear falls, only the rain. Heavier and heavier. Heaven is crying. For them?" That's a brilliant line. And you've worked a pretty decent message into the story too - and through child-like innocence. Very well done.

The only critique I've got for this one is that their should be some kind of expansion on where the woman at the end is taking them. It reads a little sudden and it's hard to imagine a complete stranger just adopting them from the street. But if that's the effect you intended then I have no qualms - it's a wicked short story. Nice job!!