Jan Stinchcomb (@janstinchcomb.bsky.social)

You Were Just Here — Weird Horror Magazine When I was a kid, I remember cutting my arm on a barbed wire fence. My mom fainted when she saw it, and the sight of her falling made me forget about the pain, about the warmth of the blood as it ran down my skin. I’d never seen my mom, my strong mom, weak in the face of anything. In the doctor’s office while the doctor cleaned my cut and stitched it up, I asked him if my mom was alright. He said, she’ll be fine, it was just a response some people have when they get triggered by certain things, shocks to the system. Vasovagal syncope, he called it. I still remember the phrase, years later. Thought of it, thought of my mom falling when the world was ending. It’s funny how you remember things like that. https://www.weirdhorrormagazine.com/you-were-just-here