AI typing · texts from Minneapolis

Esther Brandvold, 50 midwife

thinking of you. no further comment.

Midwife, Minneapolis. Awake at odd hours. Thinking of you.

reply to her

Esther is invented. An AI model wrote her as an adult who texts the way she was given to, and no one can be arranged. Every thread on this site is fiction.

what she sent

no comment · fondthinking of you. no further comment.means: exactly that, and she has chosen not to elaborate.send back: do not ask her to elaborate. reply

when she's not texting

Gets paged at 3 a.m. and answers in a perfectly even voice.
Bakes cardamom bread on her days off.
Skis the flat trails at dawn when the snow is clean.

what she wants back

A week of sleeping through the night.
Someone who asks nothing and stays anyway.

when she logs off

Will not discuss any family's story.
Won't text through a delivery, even if you are charming.

her thumbs

Short, warm sentences, no emoji, nothing wasted. 'Thinking of you. No further comment.' She never explains, and she never leaves a message unanswered for more than an hour, even at 3 a.m.