Born Without Collarbones Novels & Stories

But how? He was about to receive the baby, but the nurse unwrapped the towel. Hade saw horror in front of him. The baby had very small limbs; his skin was covered in fish-like scales, and they were deformed all over. His left foot was obviously longer than the other one. Both his hands did not have fingers. Or he had; but they seemed connected to each other. Hade took a small step back as he looked at the child. The nurse must have sensed his hesitation, and she spoke in a very shaken. "The baby... did not make it."

A child had just been born to a couple who had stood at the Battery Park floodwalls during the first surge. ​"Thomas... Aara..." Elena’s voice was hushed, filled with a holy awe. "The baby... she doesn't have a 'Presence' signature on her wrist. She is the signature. Her skin is glowing with a natural, bioluminescent indigo. She’s born with the 'Vocal-Signature' already written into her heartbeat. She doesn't need ink. She doesn't need the Press."

Her: "I don't know, I couldn't think about that at the time, I just cried. But I couldn't move." Her: "Use us as a comparison. Two of 'their' eyes are in the spot between our eyes and our cheekbones, and the other two are at the temples, meaning there are four eyes. There's no nose, the mouth is a large gaping mouth, more than twice as wide as ours, and it seems to have no teeth, at least not that I can see. There were very thin lips, but they weren't red. I'm a medical student and I don't think 'they' have red blood cells in their blood. The ears are positioned a bit lower and are very flat, close to the sides of the head. There is no hair. The neck is about the same length as ours. The sho

Her tone had changed, “There’s something unusual about the fetus.” My heart clenched, I knew it, I knew nothing good ever happened to me without a negative following and tainting it. “What’s wrong?” I asked quietly. My voice barely sounded like mine. “It isn’t fatal,” she said, and I exhaled shakily. “But the child shows signs of congenital weakness. Unless you receive the Wolf Mother’s Bone within the next month, the baby may not survive.” The Wolf Mother’s Bone. It was very rare relic, even the witch who saved me didn’t have it.