Chapters tagged mother

Introduction by TerraKhanus

Chapter 1

**NOTE: **_This story is inspired by "Mirror World", a story I read years ago but was unable to find when I searched for it recently. The core plot and some story ideas were inspired by "Mirror World". \* I have since been informed the story I was looking for is **Brainwave of...

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Through the Looking Glass by TerraKhanus

Chapter 2

After breakfast, my plan for the day was to do absolutely nothing, but Mom had other ideas. I was two steps from the stairs when she called my name in that gentle but inescapably commanding way: "Clark? Can you help me with the attic?" It was the middle of a summer storm, the sk...

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A Different World by TerraKhanus

Chapter 3

For a long time, we just sat there in the attic, catching our breath, like two divers surfacing after being sucked through a drainpipe. The world had gone quiet in a way I’d never heard before—the sort of hush you only notice if you listen for the sound of your own blood. My ears...

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The Hospital by TerraKhanus

Chapter 4

I sat vigil by my mother’s hospital bed, perched on a plastic chair still sticky from its last unlucky occupant. The fluorescent lights in the ceiling buzzed and flickered with a persistence that set my teeth on edge, making the world feel both hyper-real and hollowed out, like a...

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The Hard Truth by TerraKhanus

Chapter 5

I sat by Mom’s bedside, the world outside the hospital window a high-gloss cartoon of summer clouds and distant traffic, as if nothing had changed. In here, everything was changed, right down to the molecules in the air. Mom was still out cold, or close to it. She lay curled on h...

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Acceptance by TerraKhanus

Chapter 6

Mom and I played cards in silence for an hour. The hospital tray table had a sticky cup ring and a packet of “sugar” that was really salt, and the deck of cards was the kind you got for free in the mail from a charity. But she kept shuffling and dealing, as if pretending this was...

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Welcome Home by TerraKhanus

Chapter 7

We sat on the splintery wooden bench just outside the hospital’s main doors, sun glaring off the white concrete like an interrogation lamp. Mom didn’t try to hide the way her gown fluttered in the wind, its blue mesh so thin you could read the shape and color of every inch of ski...

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The Charade Begins by TerraKhanus

Chapter 8

I waited for the house to go quiet—at least, as quiet as it ever got in this world—before I guided Mom down the hallway, past the living room’s sticky tangle of bodies and into the bathroom. The door had no lock but I closed it anyway, pressed it tight with my foot until the latc...

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A Night of Pleasure by TerraKhanus

Chapter 9

We made it through dinner. That in itself was a miracle, considering the looks Dad kept throwing across the table at Mom. He’d been glancing at her all through the meal, his eyes trailing from her face, down her neck, to where her robe gaped open at the collarbone. Uncle Steve wa...

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A New Normal by TerraKhanus

Chapter 10

It was the kind of morning you could only have after a night of being used like a sex toy. I woke up in a tangle of sheets, my balls tender and my cock still tacky with the remnants of Lucy’s clinical ministrations. Sunlight bled through the cheap blinds and burned stripes onto m...

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