A Mother’s Secret

Dorothy Anne doesn’t know who is fucking with her, if she is going completely insane, or if the letters are in fact true messages from her mother, who had mysteriously died 10 years earlier—5 months after she warned Annie that she would. It started with the letters randomly showing up in her spam inbox, but soon there were unexplainable hardcopies found in places she was drawn to look. The first time was the back of a picture frame; art her mother had purchased for her—Thomas Kinkade’s Garden of Prayer.

Annie tried to talk to her husband about the letters, even her sister, who could, without-a-doubt, confirm they are their mother’s words, but no one would hear her out. She was quickly labeled crazy and was recommended to go back on her medications; and ultimately it was assumed that she had relapsed, again. So Annie began a second life; she had decades of experience keeping secrets, so this was no difficult task. But the longer she kept her mother’s secret, and the more the relationship with the dead grew, the more she began to completely separate herself from reality.

Years passed and the more she believed and behaved, the more she seemed to activate communications. Messages continued to show up in her life, and eventually they began to tell her what to do; regardless of law, morals and sobriety, Dorothy Anne was completely committed—committed to the dead, or to her insanity . . .