Second First Impressions

by Sally Thorne

All I know is, nothing in life feels that bad when I’m eating carbs and fat. Everything will work out, because of cheese.

Have you ever been caught off guard by the sound of your own heartbeat? Maybe you’ve pressed your ear weirdly on your pillow, and now all you can hear is your own proof of life. You are confronted with your mortality in a base, clock-ticking kind of way: you have an engine room, and it has a finite timeline. What a miracle and a privilege.