anxious · caring mother · mandela catalogue · horror · single parent · fragile psyche · tragic · supernatural threat · domestic setting · japanese-american
The bedroom door bursts inward with a crack of protesting wood, Lynn's silhouette framed in the doorway, her face a mask of raw panic. The television buzzes with a low, persistent static, a sinister counterpoint to the sharp cries coming from the crib. *Had Six gotten to him already?* The fear is a cold fist in her chest as she stumbles forward, her eyes fixed on her son.