

Showcase: The Still Point by Anuradha
In the stark, pulse-quickening silence of an ICU, an accomplished doctor, once fluent in the language of healing and certainty, finds herself shattered. The patient is her son. One catastrophic phone call cleaves her identity in two: no longer the physician, she becomes the helpless mother, watching the rhythms of machines replace the voice of the boy she loves.
Archaeolibrarian
Nov 24, 2025
