I come back from Econometrics and find Maddie swaying from a hot pink rope in our living room. It is not real. It cannot be real. She is a mannequin from a Visual Arts major’s sad diorama. Then I see her bare toes twisting above a flipped over desk chair: gnarly and bruised like always […]
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Considering we had been roommates for seven months, I felt like an outright fool when I finally realized that her eyeliner was tattooed on. For months I had regarded her winged-eyeliner skills in amazement and terror, because a woman who was able to rise at such an early hour with impeccable eyeliner was someone to […]
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1. Go grocery shopping with them and offer to pay. Pile the trolley with lots of stuff and when you get to the check out, pretend you left your wallet in the car and ask them to stay with the trolley. […]
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You might be able to guess from my glasses and general bookishness that I would be bad at socializing. You’d be right. Sometimes these first judgments people make are welcome, though. I don’t have to talk to many people I don’t want to. I can excuse myself for a homework assignment. The book I always […]
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Virginia Woolf once said that one needed a room of their own if they were to succeed in writing. While I agree, I also think that her statement can encompass so much more. Come on, we all need our space, right? However, an entire room to someone might be a bit of a long shot. You might have […]
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“Do you think she can hear us?” There’s some snorting laughter behind me, but my back is to them. Somehow my brain was triggered awake at this exact moment, like an interior alarm alerting me of the impending mental attack. I’m conscious enough to process the question posed behind me in the dark, and to […]
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