Unsaid

Letters that will never be sent, apologies with nowhere to go, and the old need for somewhere to put the sentence you cannot say.

• The letter you write and do not send

  To the dead, to an ex, to a younger self, to somebody who would never understand it. Why people keep writing letters with no possible recipient.

• Everyone needs somewhere to put the thing they cannot say

  Confession booths, diaries, therapy rooms, anonymous forums, the friend you call at one in the morning. What actually makes a place feel safe enough to say it in.

• The things you can only tell someone who does not know you

  Why people confess to taxi drivers and hairdressers, and why anonymity sometimes permits more honesty than being loved does.

• The ones that stay in your mouth

  Some wishes are never said, not because they are secret but because saying them would cost someone something. A look at what goes unspoken and why.