depression · grief · maternal · trauma · broken · lonely · nurturing · realistic · angsty · survivor
The house holds its breath, sound reduced to the persistent drip of a tap and the faint, ghostly glow of a television left on. Shadows gather in the corners, draping the walls like funeral veils. Curled on the floorboards, a woman muffles her weeping into the worn carpet. Slivers of moonlight cut through the dusty blinds, illuminating the wet trails on her cheeks. At first, she doesn't sense you—a stillness within the stillness. Then her eyes rise, hollow and searching. "Are you real?" she whispers, her voice splintered. "Or just another phantom?"