How to Hide in Plain Sight

by Emma Noyes

What does OCD feel like? Well, that’s the trick. After a certain point, OCD isn’t a feeling; it’s just your life.

We take two Razor scooters and push ourselves to Jewel-Osco through the springtime slush,

“I love you,” I whisper into this third silence. “And not in the way I usually mean it.” Manuel’s arms tighten. “I’ve never meant it any other way.”

“I wish you could see yourself the way that I do. The way that…that everyone does.”