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Baby

He came into the world just as he left it.

He was just a few minutes old, connected to the woman that is already dead, her forehead slick with sweat, and body cold as ice.

He was tied to his mother by a terrible rope. A shiny, twisted midnight blue-black rope. They were both dead.

He left the world just as he came into it, wearing nothing but blood.

(70 words)