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Chapter 8

Autor: Goodtale
Three days after Thalia left, the house became much quieter.

Lorraine showed the most obvious change. She turned Thalia's old room into a study and spent every afternoon sitting inside reading cookbooks.

She used to never lift a finger around the house. Now, she was learning to make soup with Emma every day. There was almost always a pot simmering on the stove, and whenever I came through the front door, I was greeted by a warm, comforting aroma.

When she served her first pot of soup, the who
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  • Damn, Those Shrooms Got Me Good   Chapter 9

    Jack lowered his head and finished his soup. When he was done, he simply said, "Not bad," before getting up to leave.That night, after I finished showering, Chester was waiting for me in the hallway. He handed me a cup of hot milk, exactly like he had on the day I was discharged from the hospital for the first time.I took the cup and drank it."Next time you say something like that, can you at least give me a warning?" He leaned against the wall and looked at me."Why?""I wasn't prepared.""What do you need to prepare?"He looked at me as the hallway light cast a warm glow across his face."My heart," he replied.I stood there holding the cup of milk and suddenly felt hot. I raised the cup to cover half my face."How are you still so good at this after your glow disappeared?""You taught me well."…Our wedding was set for six months later.Lorraine had started getting anxious by the third month. Every day, she held her phone and searched for wedding-planning tips.A

  • Damn, Those Shrooms Got Me Good   Chapter 8

    Three days after Thalia left, the house became much quieter.Lorraine showed the most obvious change. She turned Thalia's old room into a study and spent every afternoon sitting inside reading cookbooks.She used to never lift a finger around the house. Now, she was learning to make soup with Emma every day. There was almost always a pot simmering on the stove, and whenever I came through the front door, I was greeted by a warm, comforting aroma.When she served her first pot of soup, the whole family went silent."It's salty." Jacob frowned after taking the first sip.Lorraine's hand froze around the spoon."But it's good," Jacob added quickly, lowering his head and gulping down the entire bowl.Lorraine's lips pressed together, and she tried to keep it neutral. But in the end, she couldn't hold back a smile.I sat across from her, holding my bowl. The soup slid down my throat, warming my stomach.I looked up at Lorraine. She was wiping water off the counter with a paper towe

  • Damn, Those Shrooms Got Me Good   Chapter 7

    The next morning, the hallucinations started distorting wildly.When Jacob came in, his frog face and human face kept switching back and forth rapidly. Lorraine's demonic appearance flickered in and out. When Thalia glanced through the glass, the snakes on her head sometimes coiled together and sometimes came loose.A few days later, the octopus guy disappeared.That was when I finally got a good look at my attending doctor. It turned out he was just a young guy in glasses.On the day I was discharged, Lorraine came to pick me up.Her demon appearance was gone. It had been a long time since I'd seen my mother with such a normal face. I stared at her for quite a while before finally looking away.I got into Chester's car.On the drive back to the Levine residence, he drove while I stared at his side profile through the window for a full five minutes.Sunlight streamed through the car window, casting the shadow of his brow ridge across the bridge of his nose. Those little stars I

  • Damn, Those Shrooms Got Me Good   Chapter 6

    On the second day of my hospital stay, Lorraine stood guard outside my hospital room.Her demonic appearance hadn't changed, but her eyes were swollen and red-rimmed. There were even traces of tears that hadn't been wiped clean clinging to the tips of her fangs.I watched her through the glass in the door from my hospital bed and thought, "Even after crying this much, she can still look so terrifying. I guess the heavens really did bless her with a special kind of talent."Thalia came to bring me soup. When she pushed open the door, the three snakes on her head rose as high as they could and hissed at me in unison.But Lorraine was still standing outside. With her facing the room, Thalia wore a gentle, warm smile. Even the snakes seemed to behave a little tamer.Thalia said, "Ruthie, I made you some soup. Eat a little."Lorraine nodded from the doorway and turned around to answer a phone call. The moment she turned her back, the smile disappeared completely from Thalia's face.S

  • Damn, Those Shrooms Got Me Good   Chapter 5

    My eyelids felt unbearably heavy.It was noisy. There was much chattering and buzzing, like a crowded marketplace."It's all your fault! If you hadn't insisted on taking the whole family to that stupid gala, would Rue have eaten any random food she could get while she was home alone?""Now you're blaming me? Have you taken care of her at all in the four months since she came back? You didn't even know she was staying in a guest room!""Alright, stop arguing. She's still unconscious…""Shut up. You spend all day doting on that adopted daughter of yours…"My head was pounding from all the noise. I wanted to cover my ears, but I felt something stuck in my wrist. It was cold, and a needle was lodged in my vein.I opened my eyes.The ceiling was white. It was so white that I was dazed for a moment and thought, "So this is what heaven looks like."Then, a face moved toward me.I saw eight tentacles. Suckers covered them densely. On top of its round, bulbous head were two tiny black

  • Damn, Those Shrooms Got Me Good   Chapter 4

    "Are you mentally unwell?"Behind me, Jacob, who had been silent ever since getting slapped first thing in the morning, finally couldn't take it anymore.I said bluntly, "I'm afraid of snakes, and I'm afraid of pigs." Thalia lay on the floor crying, the snake heads drooping from her hair, their hissing noticeably weaker.Dwayne was sprawled on his back, flailing all four of his limbs three times before finally managing to get up. He looked just like a slaughtered pig lying helplessly on its back.I stared at the sight of the snake lady and pig tangled together on the floor. Then, my stomach churned again.Lorraine's demonic face came closer. "Ruthie! Why did you push Thally?"I took a step back and said, "I didn't push her. She lost her balance herself. I just dodged the snakes, and she fell."Lorraine shrieked, "How dare you still argue? Snakes? What snakes? Where are they? What kind of nonsense are you talking about?"Another face came closer.I turned around and saw a man

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