DarkWinter Literary Magazine – Unraveling

Unraveling reveals a family coming undone in the span of one dinner prep. Celeste bears the mental load of home, work, and new motherhood as she cooks for her family. The life she’s built to fill her days leaves her unsatisfied and questioning everything. Dinner tasks succumb to Celeste’s yearning to be seen in all her raw reality by her partner. The story unpacks the burden of the moment that so many working caregivers are feeling, as they face the current socioeconomic and domestic challenges of life in the 21st century in a post-pandemic, tech-first world. Read it here.