Happy Birthday, Baby
Nov 3 · 3 min read
Jaylen lay unmoving. The ropes that bound his recumbent body constricted his chest. His weighty eyelids flittered as he came to. Darkness flooded his eyes. His muscles tightened. The cold, concrete floor nipped at his skin. He sank his teeth deeper into the cloth wedged between his lips.

The clangor of condensation falling on distant metal pipes was soon masked by creaking on some stairs. Jaylen writhed across the ground…

