The Conditions of Will

by Jessa Hastings

Conscious feelings are present on the surface, and you make decisions around them, but subconscious feelings exist under the surface, and they dictate your decisions too, arguably even more so, but often you only realize that in retrospect.

him… I know I don’t know him, but I know him. And I hope he knows me

I’ll do. When I was twenty, I started using La Mer’s Crème de la Mer. Before then, my skin was fine, good even…but once I started using that, it became great. And now I can’t unknow how great my skin can be. And this is how I feel

the house. “Well, it doesn’t look like the house of a whore,” Oliver declares to no one in particular. I glance at him. “What does a whore’s house look like?” “I don’t know.” he shrugs. “A second-floor condo on the corner of Ocean and Alta?” Sam pauses. “That’s where you live.” Oliver gives him