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The Sound of Silence I never said good morning. Why bother? It was just me at home. I knew it the moment I shut my bedroom door. The silence was wrong. Not quiet — wrong. Too thick. Too padded. Like someone had wrapped the house in cotton and swallowed all the ordinary noise. No music drifting from my sister Arietta’s room. No half-sung lyrics, no hairbrush thudding against the counter, no dramatic sighs about nothing in particular. Just me. And my own voice. Thin. Off-key. Trying to cut through the invisible ache of being ghosted. “They dit...
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