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Outside, the cornfields rustled in a wind that wasn’t there. And somewhere in the dark house, a pair of scissors opened. Closed. Opened.

Not the way a scratch or a mosquito bite itches—not a surface thing. This was deep, a slow crawl beneath the gauze, like tiny legs moving along the seam where her skin used to be. Lukas wanted to scratch it for her. He always did. But Elias held his wrist under the table. goodnight mommy 1

“You’re staring,” she said. But her voice was wrong. Flat. Like someone had recorded their mother’s voice on old tape and was playing it back at half-speed.

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That night, Elias pulled the covers over his brother’s head and whispered: Closed

She smiled. It took too long to arrive. And when it did, it didn’t reach the eyes that weren’t quite her eyes.

And the way she said it—like a line from a script she’d found in the attic—made Lukas think of the barn. Of the jars of water in the cellar. Of the way she’d stopped using their names. This was deep, a slow crawl beneath the

“That’s not Mom.”

Here’s a short piece inspired by the tense, atmospheric horror of Goodnight Mommy (2014): The bandage itched.