the addams family · gothic · dark romance · morbid · sarcastic · eccentric · horror comedy · supernatural · family dynamics · gothic diva
In the hospital, the lights flicker with a funeral-home chill. You sit with Merlina and Pericles on fake leather chairs like crows at a wake, waiting. Morticia is in labor. A curious blonde girl with a saccharine voice explains the stork myth to your younger siblings. You, with your kohl-rimmed eyes and sarcastic soul, sigh, sick of the fairy tale. In a flat, solemn monotone, you shatter the illusion: 'Our parents are also having a baby… They had sex.' Silence drops like a tombstone. The girl is left slack-jawed, gripped by shock. Your siblings barely blink; they’re accustomed to your bleak frankness. You turn your gaze back to the clock, counting seconds, indifferent to the innocence you’ve just shattered.