Tuesday Mooney Talks To Ghosts

by Kate Racculia

Live as well and as long as you can.

And whatever natural anxiety she had about coupling could’ve only been made worse by the garbage we’ve all been eating all our lives, every piece of fairy-tale cake we’ve choked down that rewards a girl—for her kindness, her wit, her courage—with a wedding. As though a wedding is a marriage, as though marriage is itself a trophy.”