A Touch of Jen

by Beth Morgan

She still believes in reaching an essential part of herself through discipline: If she does everything right, she’ll find her way to some mystical nugget…a form in which her beauty is self-evident, her destiny clear, her neuroses shriveled and fallen away. Often that version has seemed as concrete as a person sitting in the next room.

He validates their concerns, and agrees that Jen seems like “a real cunt.”