Lyrical Micro-Stories
A collection of micro-stories and lyrical prose that lingers in the quiet spaces of heartbreak, longing, and the dignity of lives only half-seen.
Writer & Storyteller
Parekhit Bhattacharjee is a writer and storyteller dedicated to capturing the emotional landscapes that people often struggle to articulate. His work delves into the nuances of longing, memory, and the quiet dignity of survival, finding profound meaning in the silence of ordinary lives.
Drawing from a multidisciplinary background in communication, music, and photography, Parekhit brings a unique sensitivity to rhythm and atmosphere in his prose. His writing is characterized by an attention to the "unsaid," where cadence and imagery work together to reveal the things people carry but rarely speak aloud.
He is the author of the poetry collection A Map Without Names. Things We Never Said marks his debut literary prose collection, a series of brief, intentional stories designed to gather emotional weight through accumulation and deep observation.
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.
The unsaid lives louder than words ever could.
In silence, ordinary lives reveal their infinite depth.
What remains is the dignity we choose to carry.
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