The parents couldn't understand why their baby wouldn't stop crying. They did everything in the handbook. Tried feeding it. Tried rocking it to sleep. Playing with it. Changing its diaper. Even the pediatrician was stumped as to why the child just wouldn't stop its tears. It went on for days, then weeks, and finally months. It never slept. It never paused. Just a constant series of non-stop wails. Eventually, the child grew into an adolescent, but the cries continued. It became a sideshow freak, an eternally crying human being for which people came from all over the world to see.
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Very Short Stories & Drabbles Part 2
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