Dear Enemy

by Kristen Callihan

“Tell me something . . .”

“Do agents in this town take Cliché Bitch 101 classes around here?”

You know, they say boys are meanest to the girls they like the best.” “I hate that saying. Meanness is meanness. To tell a girl that there’s some sort of benevolent action behind it all is to say that it’s okay for her to be victimized.”

‘dicks will be dicks, and a misbehaving dick deserves a knee to the balls.’”

“I don’t want this anymore,” he rasps, so low I almost miss it over the din of the crowd. “Not if it comes at the expense of your happiness.”

You were always there, under my skin.”