The Mother & Her Son
The Mother & Her Son
In a quiet, forgotten village, there stood an old wooden house at the edge of the forest. Inside lived a widow and her only son, Ayan. Ever since his father’s death, Ayan had grown silent, withdrawn, and strange. He spent long hours locked in his room, whispering softly as though speaking to someone unseen.
At first, his mother thought it was just grief, or the imaginary games of a lonely child. But soon, things began to change. At night, toys moved by themselves. The rocking chair creaked though no one sat in it. Sometimes, she heard a woman’s voice singing a lullaby—a lullaby she had never sung.
One stormy night, she pressed her ear to Ayan’s door.
Her heart froze as she heard him whisper:
“Don’t worry… Mama doesn’t know. I’ll come with you soon.”
Terrified, she burst into the room. The lamp flickered. Ayan sat on the bed, staring at the empty corner, smiling strangely.
Over the next days, his behavior grew darker. His eyes seemed empty, and when she called to him, sometimes he replied coldly:
“You’re not my real mother.”
One night, desperate, she asked him:
“Ayan… who are you talking to? Who is here with you?”
Slowly, Ayan turned his pale face towards her. His lips curled into a twisted smile as he whispered:
“My real mother… She said you stole me from her grave.”
Her blood turned to ice. Before her horrified eyes, Ayan’s skin began to pale and crack like dried earth, his small hands turning cold and grey.
And then… the room grew darker. Behind Ayan, a tall shadow appeared—the figure of a woman in torn burial clothes, her face hollow, her eyes empty, and a dreadful smile stretching across her lips.
The ghostly figure whispered, her voice like the wind through a graveyard:
“He belongs to me. You borrowed him… but now he returns.”
The mother screamed and tried to run, but the doors slammed shut. The lamps shattered. The whole house was swallowed in darkness.
By morning, the house was silent. When the villagers came, they found it empty. No mother. No son.
But on stormy nights, when the wind howls through the trees, people say they still hear it—the sound of a child laughing, and a mother crying, echoing from that abandoned house…
ماں اور بیٹا

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