# Sweater on the ribs

**Published by:** [alchemist](https://paragraph.com/@alchemist-3/)
**Published on:** 2025-08-06
**URL:** https://paragraph.com/@alchemist-3/sweater-on-the-ribs

## Content

There’s a child in the corner of a heart grown cold, feet dangling over memories too deep to reach the floor. It doesn’t cry — just listens to the echo of voices that never meant to stay. It wears silence like an old sweater, too tight around the ribs, stitched by years that asked too much, too soon. The human walks, talks, works — but something flickers in the space between breaths. Sometimes, the child rattles the walls of the quiet room inside, and the human forgets — why their hands are shaking? They meet in moments of collapse — when the world feels too loud, and the mirror shows too many faces for one name.

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