Nocticadia

Author: Keri Lake Listening Length: 18h 36m

Mortui vivos docent. The dead teach the living. After watching my mother succumb to a mysterious illness, I promised myself two things. I’d find the cure for what ravaged her. And leave the godforsaken city where she abandoned me. Four years later, I receive an acceptance letter from Dracadia University, one of the ol...

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R iding the subway after work sucked. Riding the subway after having seen my dead mother at work was downright unnerving. Although Jayda had urged me to leave an hour earlier than usual, I’d stayed a bit longer just so I didn’t saddle her with all the work.

I’d never bothered to mention the hallucination to her, even if she was more friend than coworker. And the times I did talk about my mother’s death, I never bothered to mention the black worms in her mouth, either.

Mostly because I had a bad feeling they weren’t real, either.

According to Bee’s dad, Conner, my mother had slit her wrists that night.

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