Flowers…Cards.

Breakfast trays balanced carefully across blankets. Commercials filled with smiling families

And perhaps that is why stories about monstrous mothers disturb people so deeply.

Not because they feel impossible.

Because they violate something people desperately want to believe unhttps://open.substack.com/pub/thebutcheredwriters/p/mother-knows-best?r=3c6ao8&utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=webtouchable.