Mother Daughter short stories
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Dead Air at Eight
A radio producer hears her mother rehearsing an obituary for someone still alive.
HorrorH-090Lane Four Is Empty
When her daughter disappears before a swim final, a volunteer coach discovers that winning has taught her to look past the wrong things.
HorrorH-068One Minute on the Voice Reel
An old voice reel lets an archivist send one minute to the night she left home.
HorrorH-058The Bell That Kept Her
A restorer can keep her mother alive by ringing a harbor bell twice, but the first return exposes what devotion cost their family.
HorrorH-094The Guest Who Knew Our Fire Exit
An innkeeper's difficult guest knows the building too well, and her mother's account of an old fire threatens a sale she desperately needs.
HorrorH-091The Key That Borrowed Sleep
A night clerk finds a way to give her exhausted mother perfect sleep, then discovers who has been paying for her own peaceful nights.
HorrorH-089The Last Clean Apron
A cook inherits an apron that can return her mother's words, but every conversation costs a memory she cannot replace.
RevengeR-080The Locksmith Who Would Not Let Me In
A daughter calls a locksmith to check on her mother, only to discover that the locked door is a deliberate answer to her own control.
RevengeR-061The Map My Mother Burned
A mosaic artist catches her mother destroying the plan for a memorial wall.
HorrorH-061The Room Above the Chandlery
A woman preparing to take over her family chandlery questions a sleepwalking video that could cost her the lease and her independence.
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