Oct 1, 2025
Whumptober Day 1
Prompts used:
“Please don’t cry”
Lamb to Slaughter
Ceremony
Beg for Forgiveness
“Please don’t cry,” Theodor begged, crying himself.
The midwife left, reassured by Theodor’s lies that family was nearby. But the baby constantly needed to be changed, to be fed, to be held, screaming himself purple otherwise.
Theodor was exhausted, sleeping only in short fits. Theodor first dreamed of begging his parents’ forgiveness as their faces melted to bone in the funeral pyre.
A shadow lurked nearby. When Theodor next dreamed of drowning his brother in the river, it smiled.
Like a lamb to the slaughter, it thought, slipping into Theodor’s vulnerable mind, Oh, KluYa, what a monster we’ll make together...
