The silence had become a second skin. Heavy. Airtight.
They look normal, she thought. They look like people who go grocery shopping and laugh at memes. Just like me. -NekoPoi---Please-Rape-Me--Episode---02-720P--N...
Maya read it three times. Then she closed the laptop, walked to her kitchen, and for the first time in four years, she did not look at the microwave clock. She didn't need to check. She already knew the time. The silence had become a second skin
That Saturday, she stood outside the community center for twenty-three minutes. She watched others walk in. A man with a cane. A young woman in a medical mask. An older couple holding hands so tightly their knuckles were white. They look normal, she thought
She crumpled the flyer into her pocket. Then she uncrumpled it. Then she folded it into a perfect square and shoved it deep into her jeans.