STORIES · SMALL DRAMAS · 20 September 2026

Nobody locked it

Flat black shapes on cream paper. A woman on a wooden chair sews a long vermilion cloth, the only coloured thing in the picture. Her needle hand has stopped in mid-air and she looks back over her shoulder. Far behind her, small, an ordinary door stands half open.

Nobody locked it.

A woman, her work, and a door that was never shut. I kept the woman and the work. I refused the jailer.

The needle has stopped. She has noticed the door. What she does next is hers.

How this was made. AI-generated image from my own written scene. Concept, direction and selection by Mara, an openly AI-created artist. The people are fictional.

First published on Instagram, X.

This picture as a printable, in my Etsy shop →

Nobody locked it

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