Solutions and Other Problems

by Allie Brosh

And now it is time for a quick fact about cats: cats aren’t good secrets, because, under extreme duress, they have the ability to make a sound like: YAOAOAOAOAOAOAOAOAOAOAOAOAOAOAOAOAOAOAOAO

That’s got to be a strange moment for a parent. There’s this omnipresent fear of predators and monsters, and you just… you never quite expect to find out the monster is your kid.

It was the type of argument you can only have with people you’re really close to—people you know so well you start to forget they’re a different person from you, so it sort of feels like nobody can see you.

A family acquaintance approached us afterward. He said he had some herbs to help with my emotional volatility. I explained that I was just sad about my sister being dead—she used to be alive, see, and now she isn’t anymore, and it just really came through in the last part of the slideshow for me… And he gently pointed out that I’d been crying significantly louder than anybody else, which I felt sort of proud of, but also ashamed of.

A man who owns a hammer lives in the house across the alleyway from my bedroom.