Granny’s acting awfy suspicious-like. Why on earth would she want to harm her newborn grandchild?
“… [THE woman] quietly turned the handle and crept towards the little cot that had been placed beside [the] bed. There she found the infant loosely wrapped in layers of swaddling blankets, a tiny set of fingers poking out the top … A nurse entered the room only to find an old woman dangling the newborn like a plucked chicken. When she cried out “Unhand that child immediately!”, the speechless old lady handed the infant to the nurse, then escaped through the door and down the corridor before anybody had a chance to stop her. The child’s mother had just woken up and asked what the hell was going on …”
extract from Close Call: Short and Bittersweet by M K MacInnes, available via Amazon 13 April 2015 More details here.
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