Nobody lives on Weeping Way anymore. The final homeowners moved out last week and now there's nothing but an empty estate with a memorial garden where the old maternity home used to be. Not even vandals go near the place, too scared of what's been left behind still looking for answers.
Me and my friends used to hang out there when we were kids, before we knew any better and shortly before the left-behind was woken up. I reckon it was somewhere where the newer houses were built, where the furthest end of the maternity home was before the fire took it out.
Apparently it was arson, at least the news clippings stored in the library say so. An upset parent wanting to regain their family's lost honour by killing their unwed daughter after she'd given birth. They took her kid and left the rest to burn alive, as the papers say thirty-two women and forty-eight infants died.
Sometimes we'd hear crying babies when we were heading up there, but we already knew about them. The council may have renamed it Asterby Road but it would always be Weeping Way to the rest of us, out of respect if not fact.
When the left-behind made its first appearance the kids who saw it said it looked like a half-melted doll, similar size to a doll too but it talked like they did. Asked them all sorts of questions about what happened, where the home was and where everybody had gone.
They told it about the fire but couldn't answer everything else - how could they possibly know where the bodies went to or where the survivors are, if any were still alive? The left-behind got upset, started wailing loud enough to wake the dead and soon all the air around them was filled with the sounds of screaming babies and roaring flames.
All but one made it back to town and when they went back with their parents to look for the missing one they found him already dead. His body was burning hot even though his pulse was long gone. The autopsy showed asphyxiation by carbon monoxide and they suspected a leaking pipe somewhere in the area.
They never found it - still haven't to this day even though people are still found dead there, still dying from a long gone fire. The left-behind can still be seen wandering about the place, though officially it's a cat with mange and damaged front legs or whatever helps people sleep better at night.
Sooner or later it'll decide to leave Weeping Way.
Me and my friends used to hang out there when we were kids, before we knew any better and shortly before the left-behind was woken up. I reckon it was somewhere where the newer houses were built, where the furthest end of the maternity home was before the fire took it out.
Apparently it was arson, at least the news clippings stored in the library say so. An upset parent wanting to regain their family's lost honour by killing their unwed daughter after she'd given birth. They took her kid and left the rest to burn alive, as the papers say thirty-two women and forty-eight infants died.
Sometimes we'd hear crying babies when we were heading up there, but we already knew about them. The council may have renamed it Asterby Road but it would always be Weeping Way to the rest of us, out of respect if not fact.
When the left-behind made its first appearance the kids who saw it said it looked like a half-melted doll, similar size to a doll too but it talked like they did. Asked them all sorts of questions about what happened, where the home was and where everybody had gone.
They told it about the fire but couldn't answer everything else - how could they possibly know where the bodies went to or where the survivors are, if any were still alive? The left-behind got upset, started wailing loud enough to wake the dead and soon all the air around them was filled with the sounds of screaming babies and roaring flames.
All but one made it back to town and when they went back with their parents to look for the missing one they found him already dead. His body was burning hot even though his pulse was long gone. The autopsy showed asphyxiation by carbon monoxide and they suspected a leaking pipe somewhere in the area.
They never found it - still haven't to this day even though people are still found dead there, still dying from a long gone fire. The left-behind can still be seen wandering about the place, though officially it's a cat with mange and damaged front legs or whatever helps people sleep better at night.
Sooner or later it'll decide to leave Weeping Way.
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