Posts about silence and the unsaid

Anonymous 2026/10/10 I was a gestational surrogate in 2019 and I want to write the part that isn't in the agency brochure or in the people-are-horrified comments. I'm thirty-four. Married, three kids of my own — that's a requirement, by the way, agencies generally want you to have…

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Anonymous 2026/09/27 The thing I can't say at a dinner party is that the best teaching job I have ever had is inside a prison. Before this I was in a public high school for eleven years. I left in 2016 after a year I don't want to describe in detail — it involved an administration…

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Anonymous 2026/09/19 I gave up a baby in 1991 when I was seventeen and she found me fourteen months ago, and none of this has gone the way anybody would write it. Fifty-one, Ohio, two sons — twenty-three and nineteen — and a husband of twenty-six years who knew before he married m…

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Anonymous 2026/09/17 There are ninety seconds from 2017 I have never described to another human being, including the three people who were in the room with me. I work approach control at a facility I won't name. Forty-six, wife, two kids, a pension I can see from here. First, so y…

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Anonymous 2026/09/27 I secretly regret becoming a parent, and I would never say that out loud around anyone who knows me. I love my kids. I would protect them with my life. They are funny and smart and they’ve given me moments of happiness I didn’t know existed before them. All of…

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Anonymous 2026/10/05 In 2009 I told a detective my cousin was at my apartment on a night he wasn't, and a family in my town has never found out who hit their son. I was twenty-four. My cousin was twenty-two. We'd grown up four houses apart and he was closer to me than my actual br…

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Anonymous 2026/10/01 I resent my sister for having an easier life and I have never said that to a single human being. On paper nothing was taken from me. We grew up in the same house with the same parents. But I was the oldest and she was the one with the asthma, and from the time…

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Anonymous 2026/09/29 I’m the executor of my uncle’s estate and I found a letter he clearly never intended the family to see. He died unexpectedly and left me in charge because I’m “the organized one.” While going through documents, I found a sealed envelope with no legal instructi…

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Anonymous 2026/09/24 I never told my father I forgave him. He died thinking I was still angry. I was not angry for years before that, I just did not know how to start the sentence, and I kept telling myself there was time. There was not.

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Anonymous 2026/10/01 I've been in this country for twenty-two years without papers and my kids think I'm just quiet. I came in 2003. I was twenty-six. I'm fifty-one now. I'm not going to say from where or where I live. Twenty-two years. I have a daughter who is nineteen and a son …

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Anonymous 2026/09/24 My best friend told me a secret four years ago and asked me never to repeat it. I have kept it. But keeping it changed how I see them, and they have no idea why I slowly pulled away. They think they did something wrong. They did not. I just could not look at t…

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Anonymous 2026/09/16 I bought a gun two years ago and my wife still doesn't know it's in the house. We got broken into in March of 2023. We weren't home. They took a laptop and a jar of change and they left the back door open, and my wife didn't sleep properly for about four month…

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