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What Writing Damaged Mothers Taught Me About Love

A grown daughter holding her aged mother's hands, both wearing cream colored sweaters, a symbolism of mother daughter relationships and how damaged mothers and love go hand in hand, a theme explored in the psychological thriller Cobra Orchard.

What Writing Damaged Mothers Taught Me About Love

Published by Terveen Gill on October 25, 2026

Reading Time: 3 minutesFiction fits mothers into two costumes, the saint and the monster. The damaged mothers of Cobra Orchard wear neither. Every one of them loves her child, and every one of them leaves a wound. Find out how they carry love and trauma in the same arms.