Oct 9, 2025
"Adam was born two years after David, to the day. He was small and pink in the hospital, squirmy and loud and not at all what David wanted for his second birthday, and he held a pillow over his newborn brother’s face the very night they took him home. David grew tired, and scared, the second baby Adam’s crying had stopped, before any permanent damage could be done — only having known him for two days and already feeling lost without the sound of his screams. The attempts on his life, naturally, did not end there."
fratricidality - "family tree"
