Egress

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The birth was silent. Silent in that the creature, an infant human male, made no sound. Its eyes were wide, bloodshot, free of the detritus of the womb. The slit beneath the protruding dot of flesh marked by two opening and closing holes, wrinkled itself into misshapen, unrecognizable figures of agony.

The doctor, a man in his fifties and completely hidden behind the olive curtain of his uniform, handed the child to his mother, resting its smooth, reddened back just beneath her breasts. Before she could look down to gaze in her firstborn's eyes, its mouth was on her teat, suctioning furiously- She screamed, her throat's veins visible to all in the room. "Get it off!"

The nurse to the woman's left gently grabbed the babe under its arms and tugged. And tugged some more. And some more. Another set of hands latched around the child's squirming waist, swelling with the might of the doctor's effort. A few more minutes and the creature finally surrendered his mother's bloody, rent nipple with a plop.

The doctor, drenched in salted sweat, held the infant at arm's length above his head and stared into its blue, engorged face. In the little black cave that was its lipless mouth, the man espied what must have been 30 or 40 of the smallest, sharpest teeth he'd ever seen.