The Chute
Content Warning: Death of a parent The floor lets go. Tiles shrug off grout, float up like loose teeth toward the ceiling, which has become a drain. The table lifts…
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Amma by Saraid de Silva
Originally written for lesbrary.com Some silences are so profound that they become part of the landscape, not just heard but inhabited. Amma knows that terrain—how silence gets passed down not just through forgetting but through a caring that has been cornered. In this debut novel from Saraid de Silva, the unspoken doesn’t just haunt the margins of the characters’ lives; it forms their foundation. The narrative follows three women—Josephina, Sithara, and Annie—across time and place, not to est…