Time-lapse: Life Unravelling while I was in a Coma
READING AGE 16+
Eighteen months. That’s how much of my life vanished into the white noise of a coma.
When I finally opened my eyes, the world I knew was gone. My husband, Timothy, isn't the doting partner I remember—he’s a stranger with a new life, a new home, and a "colleague" named Bianca who has already stepped into my shoes. While I was fighting to wake up, they were busy erasing me, turning my tragedy into their perfect head start.
But amidst the betrayal and the gaslighting, there is Gill. My childhood friend. The man who stayed when everyone else moved on. The man who sold his dreams just to keep my heart beating when Timothy wanted to pull the plug.
As I navigate the "time-lapse" of a life I no longer recognize, I realize the unravelling started long before the accident. Now, with Gill as my silent protector, I have to find the strength to stop being a ghost in my own home.
Timothy thinks I’m fragile. Bianca thinks I’m replaced. They’re both wrong.
I’m wide awake now, and I’m coming for everything they stole.
Unfold
Morning arrived without ceremony.
It did not announce itself or ask to be noticed. It simply slipped in, pale and unobtrusive, through the kitchen window, laying itself gently across the room. Light crept over the counter, lingered on the rim of a mug still warm from her hands, traced the softened edge of the table, caught th……
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