No One Is Talking About This

by Patricia Lockwood

you would see a little pie chart that told you how much of your life had been spent in the shower arguing with people you had never met.

It was a mistake to believe that other people were not living as deeply as you were. Besides, you were not even living that deeply.

Certain people were born with the internet inside them and suffered greatly from it. Thom Yorke was one of them, she thought, and curled up in her chair to watch the documentary Meeting People Is Easy.