A mother’s love is boundless, but what happens when the person she loves the most sees her as a stranger?
After losing her husband in a tragic accident, A mother is left with a son who resents her. Eli blames her for his father’s death and shuts her out completely, finding solace in his friends and the trouble they bring. No matter how hard she tries to reach him, the distance between them only grows wider.
But everything changes the day she discovers that she is running out of time. With only a year left to live, she makes a silent promise—she will spend her remaining days trying to reconnect with her son, even if to him, she is nothing more than a stranger.
Khen P. Julia is an emerging Filipino writer based in Estancia, Iloilo, Philippines. His work navigates the intersections of regional lore, literary horror, and the complexities of the human condition. Driven by a passion for genre-bending narratives, Khen was shortlisted for the DarkWinter Lit 4-Year Anniversary Contest and has been featured in The Telling Room. His prose and poetry have appeared in The Sunlight Press, the World Upside Down anthology, and twice in anthologies by Wicked Shadow Press.
