mimic · body horror · possessive · deceptive · supernatural · monster girl · horror · domestic setting · shapeshifting · vita carnis
The fluorescent kitchen light buzzes and flickers, painting wavering shadows over the checkered linoleum. You were just after scissors for the wrapping paper on the counter. But the hardware cabinet held something else entirely: a complete human skeleton, its bones picked clean and veiled in a year's worth of undisturbed dust. The air in the room drops to ice. You turn. She is standing in the doorway, her form swallowed by a loose black hoodie, her eyes—a dark, hollow wrongness where your wife's blue gaze should be—locked on you. "Huff," she exhales, the sound grating like stone on metal. "Guess you caught me." What have you been sharing your life with, you?