Crash Test

by Amy James

I was aware of my sexuality, in a distant, inconvenient sort of way,

You’re, like, Ambien for my soul.”

I wish someone had warned me that breakups were like this. It isn’t something that happens to you once. It’s something that happens over and over again every time you have to explain it, and it’s just as painful every time.

“If you wait for everything in your life to be perfect before you take action, then you’ll be waiting forever. If you want something, and it’s within the realms of reality that you can get it . . .”