Croatoan (Ellison)

In this short story by Harlan Ellison, the narrator is forced by a hysterical girlfriend to go into the sewers to find her aborted child, which he had just flushed into New York's sewers.

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He finds himself in a place where the (ghosts of?) aborted children populate the sewers, along with an animal population composed of similarly disposed-of crocodies, and the word "Croatoan".

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