AFTERCARE: Clinical Notes on the Last Unicorn Kindle Edition

When hospice nurse Alison Arona is assigned to care for a unicorn in a secret hospital wing for mythic beings, she believes she is tending a dying creature. Instead, she discovers a being unraveling under observation, its horn shedding fragments of lives it once healed—miracles reduced to data.As the hospital catalogues each flake and calls it preservation, Alison’s own memories begin to shift, revealing the quiet violence hidden inside modern mercy. The unicorn is not dying. It is being kept.At dawn, Alison must decide whether to remain inside a system that calls containment care—or risk everything to release a truth the world cannot survive.Aftercare is a literary speculative novella about healing as control, witnessing as rebellion, and the cost of remembering what care once meant.For readers of Mexican Gothic, The Employees, and Station Eleven. Read more