SAH 103

[saferinside]

This room appears almost habitable. The kitchen, though lit by only one overhead light, is cleaner than seen in the other apartments, a frying pan even sits patiently atop the stove, waiting for some purpose.

It would all seem perfectly normal until a bit of paper, hung to the refrigerator catches the eye. Nothing remarkable about the paper, except the strong masculine hand who has written upon it.

The red box seems even stranger today.
It's giving off a terrible smell.
It's disgusting, but I just can't throw it
away.

It must have been around 30 years ago.
That young couple was living in
the apartment, but one day they just
suddenly disappeared.
Ran off just like thieves in the night.

I don't know why. It must have been
money troubles, or maybe they got
themselves into some kind of danger.
The problem came after that. They left
their newborn baby when they took off.
I even found the umbilical cord.

I called the ambulance right away and
I heard the baby survived, but I don't
know what happened to him.
Although a few years later, I often
saw a young kid hanging around the
apartment.

One day he just stopped coming by.
But now that I think of it, I'll bet he
was that abandoned baby.

It's a horrbile story.
Abandoning a newborn baby...
That all happened in Room 103...
And the umbilical cord I found there...
Well, I still can't get myself to throw
it away.

Is there a strange, rotten scent in the air or is that simply imagination?

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