STORY STARTER
Submitted by K. Alejandra
There is a person who collects silences of all kinds. Like the moments right before someone confesses their love, the silence after laughter, or even the silence following the death of a loved one. One day they find a silence they weren’t supposed to find...
The Unwaking
That moment of discovery, when he turned toward his wife in bed, another regular morning like the past 50 years, but something was different, she was cold and would not move, she had fallen asleep and would not get up again to make his coffee and toast, that moment of complete and utter silence, the silence so loud it beat at his ears and his heart —
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