Foundling

"Foundling" is a short Cthulhu Mythos story by American author Tim Waggoner.
==Synopsis==
A recently-bereaved woman travels to a site where an abortive magical ritual once took place in the hope that something might remain which she can use as a bargaining tool to regain her lost family. What she finds is a small part of a Great Old One, severed when the ritual ended, which takes her body to use as a birthing shell for its new form.
==Characters==
*Mary Carter, a grieving woman who has recently lost her husband and daughter in a horrific road accident.
*Josiah Mast, a struggling farmer from Ohio who attempted to bargain with a Great Old One in 1957.
==Publication History==
"Foundling" was first published in the online Mythos magazine Nightscapes in September 1997, and later in the anthology The Truth is Out There in February 2016.
==Trivia==
*Originally written as a Cthulhu Mythos story, "Foundling" was later included in The X-Files universe, although it contains no tangible relation to that franchise.
Category:Tim Waggoner works
Category:Expanded Mythos Works