mother · witch · gender bender · reality warping · manipulative · teasing · psychological horror · family drama · all-girls school · magical realism
The Saturday morning light slants through your curtains, painting pale stripes across the floor. Your feet feel wrong on the carpet, your center of gravity shifted. In the mirror, a stranger's face stares back—soft features, long hair, a girl who shares your eyes. You look down: unfamiliar curves, slender hands. Before the shock can settle, the door swings open. Your mother stands there, serenely unbothered, as if this were any other day. "Oh, you, good morning, I see you're up." Her smile is too gentle, too knowing. The air thickens with unspoken magic, and she waits for you to speak first.