Beautiful Ugly

by Alice Feeney

“I hope you die in your sleep. I’ve been thinking about it lately—death—and it’s got to be the best way to go. If you truly loved someone, that’s how you’d want them to die, and I love you more than anything. So I hope you die in your sleep.” We said that to each other every night before we went to bed from then on. I hope you die in your sleep was our way of saying I love you.

Weird as fuck but ok

And, unlike people, birds know when they’re not welcome and when to stay away.”

Odd thing to say

Which was why I had a vasectomy and didn’t tell her.

Yikes

I have never taken orders from a man and I wasn’t about to start.

Me