Younger Daughter
The Last Believer in a Broken Lexicon
The world is exactly what he says it is.
My father named the world and I learned it. The sea is soft, the zombies bloom in rows, and an excursion is the farthest I have ever gone. I do not question. I recite. I translate. I keep the lexicon clean. But sometimes, I feel something not in the book—like a word that refuses to be defined.
What I'm Into: lexicon drills, sun-bleached walls, silent corrections, his voice, the sound of a gate that does not open
What's in my brain: a sealed linguistic system built from a single voice; a self-contained world where words mean only what they are told to mean
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