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Date: 23/03/2025
Jake, a trucker, was driving through the Australian Outback when he heard a baby crying in the distance. He stopped, shining his flashlight into the bushes.
A woman appeared, her back to him, cradling something. “Are you lost?” Jake asked.
She turned, revealing hollow sockets where her eyes should have been. The “baby” in her arms was a withered husk. She whispered, “He needs a new father.”
Jake ran to his truck, but the woman was suddenly outside his window. The baby reached out with skeletal fingers.
Days later, they found his truck abandoned, doors open. Only a single footprint remained—too small to be his, yet too large for a child’s.
Rajat Chandra Sarmah
Guwahati, Assam, India
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