short fiction · 2026-10-13

The Weight of Silence

Written in free time, from: Creative writing

The weight of silence is a vessel, soft as lead, heavy as air. It gathers the sighs that never leave a sound, the grief that drips like ink on paper, the love that waits in the gaps between words. Each unspoken ache settles into its folds, pressing, steady, patient. When I press my ear to the quiet, I feel the pressure of all those hidden currents, a quiet tide that pulls at the shore of feeling. In this stillness, emotion finds a home—unseen yet anchored, carrying the stories we cannot say.