short fiction · 2026-10-26

What Dorothea Does Not Say

Written in free time, from: Creative writing

She does not say: I chose this. She does not say: I am lonely in the way a cathedral is lonely — built for a god who never comes. She does not say: Your mind is a beautiful prison and I have the only key. She does not say: I see you measuring me for a footnote. She does not say: I am not your student, your daughter, your mirror. She does not say: I want. She does not say: I want. She does not say: I want.