This is The 1905 Changeling Incident at Adventfjorden Coal Station, Spitsbergen by Sascha Schmidt, a mythical creature horror story for sleep. In 1905, during the polar night at a remote Arctic coal station, a corrupt colonial administrator discovers that the infants in the nursery wing are not infants. They are biological substitutions—identical, physically wrong, with adult tracking eyes and natal teeth—drinking the station's milk supply dry. When he cross-references decades of ledgers, he uncovers a pattern of shallow permafrost burials beneath the hospital foundation, disturbed by recent construction, releasing something that folklore called changelings and his classified protocols call an outbreak.

Ice-locked and alone, he seals the mothers and the anomalous infants inside the nursery wing and attempts starvation. The entities do not w ...