"Mother, Monster"
Intan Paramaditha
Oh Comely Midwinter Issue 46 (print); published online on January 28, 2019
“My mother has played hide and seek all her life. Sometimes she is around, sometimes she isn’t. A year ago she was diagnosed with a serious illness. Through some divine or devilish intervention, she has been showing signs of recovery in the past two months. The mind, however, is a delicate matter. ‘Sometimes I feel she’s someone else,’ said my father, a former abominable patriarch now turned nurse. This was not the first time. My mother had gone to another space before, and had returned as another woman.”
Read the online version
“Mother, Monster,” Oh Comely Issue 46, 2019.