If It Makes You Happy

by Julie Olivia

Carol got her hooked on Steve Austin—of all people, Christ—and he’s edging higher on my six-year-old’s list of admirable men, right over those Backstreet Boys.

Metal zippers whack against the Tamagotchi, whose health no longer stands a chance now that Rocket’s in the picture.

knotted to corners of kitchen chairs with hair ties and scrunchies and pinned behind the television, so the entire world is blocked out aside from us and Rock-a-Doodle.

We’re closer than Tracy and I ever were. Trace and I were parents out of necessity.

I loved this part because I call my husband Stacy, Stace