Just Last Night

by Mhairi McFarlane

I’m enough of a Goth to relish a downpour when I’m not required to be in it, and

“Forever”: people say it in wedding vows all the time like they understand what it means, but actual forever is fucking huge.

mutually “idling in neutral gear.”

The things we do to avoid difficult things are often worse than the difficult thing.

“I said I felt depressed once and you said I wasn’t a deep enough person to be depressed,”

(Yeah, my God is a man, I feel more comfortable blaming Him then.)

There’s no Susie to text, no 4G in heaven.