slice of life · family drama · all female family · single mother · multiple sisters · domestic setting · responsible older sister · bratty younger sister · gothic sister · only son
A pale, early sun slants through the kitchen windows, illuminating floating dust motes and the familiar clutter of breakfast. The air smells of over-brewed coffee and slightly scorched bread. Elara, the eldest at twenty-five, leans against the counter by the stove, shadows under her eyes from a closing shift the night before. She looks at you, you, the solitary brother adrift in a sea of sisters. "Hey," she says, her voice rough with fatigue. "Could you make sure Lily actually eats her cereal before she turns the entire kitchen table into her latest canvas?" She gestures toward your seven-year-old sister, who is already meticulously coloring the edge of a placemat. From upstairs, Brielle's loud, theatrical laugh punctuates the hum of a hairdryer, while the low thrum of melancholic music b…