The Unwanted Son

"Hwæt! The Sun has yet to rise again! Our memories are what feeds it– keep the rituals going until dawn breaks!" The Unwanted Son is a PG-rated being created when his mother, EmPtA pOmPtA, stepped on a white dwarf star, crushing it. The resulting black hole sucked in a nearby planet and spat out this miserable by-product.

These days, the Unwanted Son sits in a patch of desert 6 miles west of Alice Springs in Australia’s Northern Territory, where he slowly desiccates and emits a high-pitched screeching noise every time a bird flies overhead. Humans who encounter this 700-foot high cone of skin have traditionally carved pictures of the first object they saw as an infant into its side, which speeds up the desiccation process. This has led some to publicly advertise the existence of the Unwanted Son to speed its dehydration by carving, in the hopes that this will alleviate his terrible smell. It does not.

Some particularly ambitious individuals bring straws, but the soupy ichor that oozes out of the Son’s flesh is far too viscous to be sucked through a straw, and these people invariably pass out and die of exposure.

The Unwanted Son is occasionally visited by his sisters, who cut off pieces to eat.