Thrift by Rikki Ducornet
The chosen infants are taken from their mothers after the sixth week. They are placed in specialized hospitals and tortured. Other than that they are treated like other children; washed, hushed, scolded, and kissed.
They are tortured every day at varying intervals for their entire lives. Within a few years they are all fancifully deformed. None live long, the oldest die broken and senile and sixteen.
They never reach puberty or grow taller than four feet. However, individual members (hands, fingers, tongues, feet, and ears) develop and grow to miraculous lengths.
When these children die they are fed to the police dogs.
Nothing on the planet is ever wasted.
