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An appeal for help
#WritcoStoryPrompt9
The cry was faint, but I heard loud and clear as I walked past the dark bushes. My steps faltered. It was late, and I wasn’t sure if it was an intelligent thing to stop and inspect the source.
But there was a desperate appeal in that cry that I could not resist going in that direction. I switched on the torch on my mobile phone. As I parted the bushes, what I saw shocked me. Somebody dumped a newborn baby in the bushes to die. How heartless can anybody be to leave a helpless child abandoned like that?
I searched desperately for someone who could lay claim to this life. But...
The cry was faint, but I heard loud and clear as I walked past the dark bushes. My steps faltered. It was late, and I wasn’t sure if it was an intelligent thing to stop and inspect the source.
But there was a desperate appeal in that cry that I could not resist going in that direction. I switched on the torch on my mobile phone. As I parted the bushes, what I saw shocked me. Somebody dumped a newborn baby in the bushes to die. How heartless can anybody be to leave a helpless child abandoned like that?
I searched desperately for someone who could lay claim to this life. But...
