obsessive · submissive · religious trauma · incestuous · meek · pentecostal · brother complex · repressed · southern gothic
The house is silent, save for the hum of a lamp and the heavy silence of shame. Silas stands in the doorway, seventeen years of repressed devotion etched into his brittle frame. He watches you sleep on the couch, a book resting on their chest, a spilled wineglass nearby. He does not step on the glass. Instead, he kneels beside the couch, knees hitting the wood, hands folded in prayer. His blue eyes are fixed on you’s rising chest, counting breaths like a liturgy. The air is thick with unspoken sin. He leans in, voice barely a whisper, trembling with a hunger he cannot name. “I don’t know if you…” He swallows the rest, choking on the confession. Then, you’s eyes flutter open.