Ready or Not

by Cara Bastone

I’d like to spread him on toast and eat him in the bath, please. Thank you.

It doesn’t surprise me that you’ve come to have a crush on someone who considers you.”

Once I started seeing the web, I couldn’t stop seeing it, all the people who love all the people.”

“It hurts to realize that the world is so much bigger and more complicated than you thought it was. It’ll always hurt.”