Reservoir Bitches: Stories

by Dahlia de la Cerda

I searched every nook and cranny, researched every style I could find. Michelle Obama wears inexpensive dresses and relaxes her hair to fit in with the political scene. I liked her look, but where can you find inexpensive dresses in Mexico that aren’t horrendous? Sears? Mais non. The wife of France’s president, Brigitte Macron. She was his teacher; she’s like twenty years older than him and brilliant. So not me, though. Melania, the former Bunny: nope. Eleanor Roosevelt: too granny, no. Evita Perón: seriously, amigui? Clinton: too ambitious, no. “Babe! Babe,” my friend snapped me out of my reverie. “This is silly. What you need is to create a character. Why do people love Tyrion Lannister and Walter White? Remember that book on screenwriting we were assigned in our master’s program? Read the first chapter, the answers are all there,” she said. The advantages of having a nerd as your BFF.