Listen for the Lie

by Amy Tintera

Brown Investment Services, waiting to be fired. I stopped pretending to work two hours ago. Now I’m just staring at recipes on my phone,

I really should try to be less of an asshole. I don’t want to think about murder, but I can’t seem to stop it. I don’t do it with everyone, but I’ve imagined killing a whole lot of people.

An insult doesn’t have the intended impact when spelled incorrectly.

“Why not? Way I see it, seems like the perfect time to develop a drinking problem. It’s dull as hell around here.”

Men don’t protect us, not really. They only protect themselves, or each other.

Some men, they’ve got to put on a show when they’re around women. It’s like they don’t actually know how to talk to us, so they choose over-the-top chivalry. “If I pull out her chair and make a big show of talking about how moms are heroes and women are actually the strong ones, they won’t notice that I don’t have any interest in listening to a single word that comes out of their mouths.”

“Better to be interesting than likable, in my opinion.”

People don’t believe women who fight back. When a man lashes out, people say he’s lost control of his temper or made a terrible mistake. When a woman does it, she’s a psychopath.

better to be interesting than likable.”