Dashing All the Way

by Chelsea Curto

Whoever decided running is a good form of exercise can go straight to hell.

but I’m a stubborn bitch, and there’s nothing I love more in life than proving a man wrong.

“Hey,” a guy in the bike lane yells at me. “You okay?” “That is a very loaded question.”

“I’ve run out of reasons why Jada can’t listen to the books she loves. I sound like a controlling husband.” Rhett scowls at me. “I don’t know how to tell my wife I don’t want her to hear my best friend tell her to take it like a good girl.”

“Look at all the dogs! And the signs! That one says we’re running better than the government, and that’s the fucking truth.”

“Would it help if I called you Daddy?”