Taboo

Anyone would have thought we’d be sated after the banquet the night before. In this house, desire never rests, and that Sunday was about to overflow.

When I walked into the bathroom and found the flowers and that card, I knew that summer would mark me forever, even though I still had no idea how it would end.

I woke with my body burning and my hand between my legs. I never imagined my sister would open the door that morning… or what would happen next.

My mother thought it was another man pounding her against the headboard. Beside her, my sister blew me kisses while my father punished her without mercy.

The car was so packed there was only one seat left: on her son’s lap. Marisol never imagined five hours on the road would be enough to cross the one line she should never have crossed.

Lucía came to the mirror naked and called me by the name only she uses. That night, with our parents gone, we stopped being just siblings.

Three hours reading stories on my phone were enough for me to accept Iván’s proposal. The next day, that hidden camera changed my whole life.

The rule was simple: keep the mask on, no talking. What Marcos didn’t know was who he was touching on his knees in my living room.

For years, Romina had imagined her mother while making love to her boyfriend. That night, with wine loosening her tongue, she could no longer keep it inside.

I went downstairs barefoot for a glass of water, convinced I was alone. I saw the light on in the office and knew that morning wasn’t going to end the way it had begun.

I went downstairs wearing the dress Mom had worn on her last vacation. When my father lifted his eyes, I knew something in him had broken forever.

When my mother finally decided to marry, I never imagined the trip to the island with my future stepsister would reveal the family’s deepest secret.

Camila closed the blind without taking her eyes off me, and when I got into bed, I could think of nothing else but what she had said about my mother.

When Sofía opened that closet box, I knew the night wouldn’t end like the others. And yet I didn’t move.

I stopped in the hallway with my hand in the air. The sighs coming from my sister’s room wouldn’t let me knock or turn back.

Four years ago, her mother walked in just in time to stop the sin. This time, with everyone gone and the band booming below, no one was opening that door.

I went downstairs for water at midnight and found her awake, ready to give my wife the one lesson I had never managed to teach her.

Nora had always admired her older sister more than she should have. What she didn’t know was that the woman she secretly desired was, in fact, her own mother.

The hiss was coming from my parents’ room, and when I looked into the darkness I couldn’t move. Then my sister appeared at the other end of the hall.

That early morning, when he tore away the sheet, I knew there was nothing left to hide: he knew, and I wanted him to know.