Deep End

by Ali Hazelwood

Maybe I’m hypersensitive when it comes to situations like this one—okay, I’m a stack of hypersensitivities in a trench coat—but I have my reasons, and I’d rather make a fool of myself and err on the side of caution than…whatever the alternative is.

He sounds like a children’s librarian seeing Judy Blume show up unannounced: happy, but nonetheless baffled.