Born Without Collarbones Novels & Stories

Red liquid drops off them and they settle on the bottom of the socket. I step back and grab the mattock. I pry some stone away from the clavicle, a cracked scapula and the tops of the humerus. They were abnormally small in comparison to the skull, as though the head had grown, but the body had remained the size of a toddler’s. The bones had scratches all over them, indicating the marks of trauma. I retch and swallow the taste of vomit. “Rita?” Boris calls from the other side of the safety tape.

Calden Enid will be discharged today, and I’ve cleared my schedule just to be here. She’s been through a lot lately, and after that last coma, her body’s been too fragile to handle anything on its own. She was born without a wolf—weak, defenseless—and every doctor keeps saying how lucky she is to still be alive. Lucky, because there’s Jodie.

I don’t want my baby to go into a state of shock all because I didn’t know how to tell her she almost died on me. “I’ll get the staff ready to take her neck brace off. Her collarbone should be healed by now, but I can’t say the same for her leg and arm yet, even her ribs. Her lung healed well. She didn’t show any signs of respiratory infections or trouble breathing. As for her kidney, we’ll worry about that when the time comes to discharge her. Oh…(he snapped his finger) I’ll have her moved to another room, so she can have more than two visitors.”

"Oh my god! Clyde Edzel is so handsome.." I said happily as I looked at the first born and together with a child or let's say the first child of Joshua and Miles.. He's too handsome inherited from his father.. He has thin and red lips. Pointed nose, white and straight eyebrow curve.. Look at the stuck face.. My son is handsome. Jusko.. The fingers and ears are small since this is a new born baby.. It's only been 2 weeks since he came out..

in front of her and fell into a wonderful contemplation. Although it's not good to use "little monster" to describe a newborn child, Evelyn couldn't find any other way to describe it than "little monster". ...... The "little monster" had a big head that was as long as its body, a thin, shriveled torso, limbs that were as shriveled as reptile arms and legs, and a small, bare tail ...... although it looked a bit like an extra tailbone.

Because they were premature, Baby A and Baby B’s skin was wrinkled, a deep purplish-red. They were so thin that the blood vessels beneath were clearly visible. There was fine downy hair on their faces and bodies, their frames so thin they looked almost like little monkeys. Leon’s heart thudded wildly. A clarity he had never known and a dizzy sense of unreality seized him at the same time.

Virando’s body began to grow bigger and bluer. His shirt and pants began to be torn off because they couldn’t hold his gigantic body. His eyes grew redder and redder. There were two long pointed horns coming out of his head. There were two long sharp canine teeth also coming out of his mouth.

The cracking of bones filled the air and pleased her beast, internally licking her lips. They were nothing of significance, longs limbs and lean muscles, signs of messengers rather than contenders for her father’s position. They stood bare as the day they were born, not a single eye blinking at their nudity as they stood with blushes of red on their cheeks. Nudity to wolves should have been second nature.

“You promise she’ll be free?” “I swear it,” I say. “On Lina. On the Pact. On my blood. She’ll never know a collar. She’ll never know Clause 3. She’ll never know what it’s like to be sold.” Nina nods. And pushes. The baby comes out screaming. Loud.Alive. A girl. Small. Too small. Red and wrinkled and furious at the world. “She’s breathing,” Galen says. “She’s strong. But she’s early. She needs heat. She needs…”

Youyou, who was proclaimed to be dead when born, had a trace of faint breath! After a series of emergency medical treatments, the newborn was finally rescued from the brink death. However, his physical constitution was just too weak, and he was always down with illness. Her poor child was also fatherless from birth. To make up for this, she doted on him with all her might. She gave him all the love she had in her. This was to make him understand that even without a father, the amount of love he received could only be greater! Hence, she gave him the name ‘Yun Shire’. While she thanked the heavens for blessing her with him, she also wished that he could grow up healthy.