The Illicit Happiness Of Other People

by Manu Joseph

But then the fate of shy people is that all their fears usually come true.

she hopes she was walking back home like a good mother, thinking about what meal to cook for two boys who ate so much.

This is how people resolve suicides – by considering it a consequence of unbearable grief or by manufacturing motives.

the contempt of a male for a smarter friend.

You know, some guys are like that, they are so silent, they are invisible. They don’t talk, they don’t do anything in the class, they just sit and watch.’

He was not good at useful things,