Really Good, Actually

by Monica Heisey

I did not want to be grounded in this moment. This moment was miserable!

Then I would read something like ‘You are not broken because someone tried to break you’ and think, wow, exactly, despite not having even one single life experience to relate to a statement like that.

‘You’ll like dating,’ she said. ‘Everyone eats ass now.’

I hated his back hair and his mother’s cooking and how he was too tall to be technically short but not really, actually tall,

Reasons I Cried, 12–23 November Bus too full and too hot

Why not give in and have low self-esteem? Maybe I could slay in that way instead.

I could not believe I had been brought to my knees by something as quotidian as heartbreak.