Things We Never Said is a literary collection of micro-stories and lyrical short prose that explores the inner lives of ordinary people living through quiet heartbreak, private longing, small acts of dignity, and the lingering weight of what goes unspoken.

Across five thematic sections, the collection moves through beginnings, becoming, love and misunderstanding, the world as it is, and what remains. The stories inhabit classrooms, train stations, hospital rooms, city streets, village roads, old gardens, cafés, and distant landscapes. Their subjects range from first love, hunger, and insomnia to queerness, grief, war, labour, memory, misrecognition, and survival.

These are not plot-heavy stories in the conventional sense. They are brief, distilled emotional narratives designed to accumulate. Read together, they build a portrait of people who feel deeply, are often misread by the world around them, and carry lives larger than what is visible on the surface.

At its core, Things We Never Said is a book about silence: the silence between people, the silence imposed by power, the silence of longing, and the silence that remains after loss. It sits between flash fiction and lyrical prose and is intended to be read as a cohesive whole rather than a conventional short-story anthology.

• Paperback: 70 pages
• Publisher: White Falcon Publishing; 1 edition (June 2026)
• Author: Parekhit Bhattacharjee
• ISBN-13: 9789376310937
• Product Dimensions: 5 x 8 inch

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