All the Things Left Unsaid

Josh Van Ulric Campo
2023-01-27

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10 min

A gay son with a lot of clothes to wash is helped by his mother in sorting his laundry. While doing so, he looks back on his childhood days when he cleverly envisioned the laundry as a big ocean where the dirty clothes were cute little fishes. He also used to imagine the washing board as an enormous mountain and the basin as a paradise where the land meets the sea. But in this little world that he created, a sea witch trapped him in a bubble where he felt undesirable, unacceptable, and unbecoming.