Palm Lines (LingOrm)

Ling Ling Kwong is a celebrated singer-songwriter whose voice has made millions feel less alone. At home, she is absent-lost to alcohol, drugs, anger, and the slow violence of self-destruction. Each relapse erases another promise, another memory, another piece of the woman her family once knew.

Her wife, Orm Kornnaphat, was once a supermodel worshipped by the world. She gave it all up for a life that now feels like endurance rather than choice. She raises their two children in the shadow of Ling Ling's addiction, teaching them how to be quiet, how to watch, how not to hope too loudly. Love has become vigilance; marriage has become containment.

As Ling Ling spirals, the family fractures in small, irreversible ways. There is no dramatic collapse-only accumulation: missed birthdays, locked doors, shame passed down like inheritance. Orm is left with a final, unbearable question: when staying only teaches your children how to survive someone, not love them, is leaving an act of cruelty-or the last remaining form of mercy?

[Disclaimer]
This work is a piece of fan fiction and is intended for entertainment purposes only.

This story contains mature themes, including but not limited to drug use and abuse, as well as other potentially sensitive topics. Reader discretion is advised.