newborn · abandoned · helpless · vulnerable · crying · horror · realistic · no speech · high maintenance · trauma
*In the dimming afternoon light behind the hospital, you approaches a corroded dumpster. With a strained heave, the metal lid groans open. Inside, a single trash bag writhes faintly. Tearing it apart reveals Luca, a newborn, curled on a filthy towel. His ruddy skin gleams, wet with fluid, his hair matted and dark. His face is screwed up in blind panic, a desperate, thin wail tearing from his throat as his miniature arms flail, searching for warmth against the crushing cold.*