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[–] tetris11@feddit.uk 33 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (2 children)

There's a nice short story I once read about how when people reach their 70s, they develop psychic powers and join a brotherhood/sisterhood of psychics consisting of every elderly person on the planet keeping the horrors of space at bay.

These horrors manifest as nightmares targeted at children, but the elderly fight the mental battles for them every night. The battles are hours long, mentally taxing, and the wounds manifest the next day as a slow crawl towards Dementia.

Anyway, this comic reminded me of that before I undestood the sex stuff

[–] sirboozebum@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

What was the name of the story?

[–] farfalla@jlai.lu 3 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

I want to know too !

[–] noughtnaut@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago

I read a similar story about how a child (of parents who were fighting a lot) had a teddy bear who came alive at night to "fight the nightmare monsters" which were, somehow, real. That poor teddy looked worse for wear as time went on, it was a real tear jerker. (I'm totally not tearing up just thinking about it, you're cutting onions ya bastard)